Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Dodie Smith | The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how... |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Her friend Graham Greene
hastened to offer his usual compliment of best-since-Memento Mori—this time after reading only the first three pages. Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf. 399 |
Fictionalization | Germaine de Staël | Benjamin Constant
, formerly the lover of GS
, represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 26 |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | In 1963 Eldon Branda
produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg. 445 |
Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | GS
was disappointed at the small enthusiasm the book generated when it was published. Only Marianne Moore
reviewed it favourably. Katherine Anne Porter
despaired of its length and density, but argued that to shorten it... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson | |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | The Princesse
hosted a salon at 57 Avenue Henri-Martin attended by Anna de Noailles
, Cocteau
, Paul Valéry
, and Proust
, who incorporated some of his perceptions of the gatherings into A la... |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | Shortly after her husband died, VT
visited St Loup de Naud, a hamlet near Provins, France, which is famous for the carvings on its Norman church, and which Proust
, an acquaintance from... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
published By Way of Sainte-Beuve, her translation of Marcel Proust
's Contre Sainte-Beuve. Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus. 270 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 739 |
Textual Production | Edith Wharton | EW
published a volume of critical essays entitled The Writing of Fiction; its reading of Proust
has been particularly praised. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1240 (22 October 1925): 696 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 9 |
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