Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press.
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Francis King
in The Spectator strongly preferred this novel to Wild Nights by Emma Tennant
. However, while he found the details of Nancy's everyday...
Literary responses
Olivia Manning
It was a disappointment to OM
when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis
, was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning?
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Francis King
, however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...
Friends, Associates
Olivia Manning
OM
's friends included a number of fellow-writers: William Gerhardi
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she had first met before the war, at a party given by Rose Macaulay
, and whose work she deeply admired),...
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Texts
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
King, Francis, and Robert Liddell. “Introduction”. Elizabeth and Ivy, Peter Owen, 1986, pp. 9-13.
King, Francis. “Obituary: Kathleen Nott”. The Independent.