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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | She spent her first Christmas as a Catholic with Sheila Kaye-Smith
and her husband, T. Penrose Fry
, and attended Midnight Mass in the church they had built in their fields, with German prisoners of... |
Friends, Associates | F. Tennyson Jesse | Gordon Place became the centre of an active female literary community, which included Elizabeth Bowen
, Rose Macaulay
, Virginia Woolf
, Ivy Low
(who was also a good friend of Viola Meynell
), Ivy Compton-Burnett |
Friends, Associates | May Sinclair | Her articles and critical reviews were encouraging for many writers, including T. S. Eliot
. Scott, Bonnie Kime. Refiguring Modernism. Indiana University Press, 1995. 85 |
Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | One of GBS
's close friends was Sheila Kaye-Smith
, with whom she collaborated in works about Jane Austen
. Another was Noël Coward
, who met her after sending her a fan letter, introduced... |
Instructor | Noel Streatfeild | Noel's first school, attended as a day-girl, was Hastings and St Leonard's Ladies' College in St Leonards-on-Sea. One of her teachers there was Sheila Kaye-Smith
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna Lyall | In 1912 Virginia Woolf
, reviewing a book about Dickens, remarked how in country inns on a wet weekend the walker frustrated by the weather would find on the single bookshelf just two authors: Dickens |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Russell | DR
first saw a tamarisk tree as a young girl. This tree grows in Britain, especially near the southern coasts (Sheila Kaye-Smith
had used it for local associations in her title Tamarisk Town... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Stella Gibbons | The idea for the novel germinated while SG
was working at the Evening Standard; she wrote much of it while travelling to and from work on the London tube. Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 390 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Stella Gibbons | Such earthy regionalists—who include Thomas Hardy
and D. H. Lawrence
, as well as Webb
and Kaye-Smith
—become the butt of SG
's satire in Cold Comfort Farm. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998. 66, 112 |
Literary responses | Radclyffe Hall | A number of writers rallied in support of RH
. E. M. Forster
and Leonard Woolf
drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw
, T. S. Eliot |
Literary responses | Edna Lyall | A later novelist, Sheila Kaye-Smith
, wrote that as a child she had known this novel and To Right the Wrong almost by heart. Kaye-Smith, Sheila, and G. B. Stern. Talking of Jane Austen. Cassell, 1943. 1 |
Literary responses | Edna Lyall | Like In the Golden Days (also set in the seventeenth century), this book was a favourite of the young Sheila Kaye-Smith
. Kaye-Smith, Sheila, and G. B. Stern. Talking of Jane Austen. Cassell, 1943. 1 |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
Literary responses | Stella Benson | Forty-six years after Benson's death, Naomi Mitchison
acknowledged that her work had ceased being read, that her fantasy was misunderstood as whimsy. She felt, however, that in 1979 a revival was due. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 127 |
Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Sheila Kaye-Smith
reviewed this in the Sunday Express as a charmingly written book. Benson, Theodora, and Betty Askwith. Seven Basketfuls. Victor Gollancz, 1932. prelims |
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