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Friends, Associates | Una Marson | While working for Selassie
, UM
met the writer and racial activist Nancy Cunard
, who was in Geneva as a reporter for the American Associated Negro Press
. Later her BBC work enabled her... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Pitter | Despite her singularly unleisured lifestyle, RP
had a remarkable talent for friendship, which extended to people with whom she might be expected to have little in common. Her friendship with Lord David Cecil
brought her... |
Friends, Associates | Stevie Smith | Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver
(author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden
, Olivia Manning
, and Cecily Mackworth
, Kay Dick
(assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly... |
Health | Una Marson | In April 1946, UM
's English friend Stella Mead
noticed that Marson was not doing well psychologically, and arranged for the writer Clare McFarlane
to take her back to Jamaica with him. Suffering from depression... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | The novel pays homage to George Orwell
, perhaps Britain's most famous dystopian writer. But ZF
explained later, in 1984 came and went, that although she had learned from Orwell she could not quite... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Rumens | Several poems delight in the history of spots around nineteenth-century London; others are sonnets; others combine satire with their piercing social observation, such as the dystopian, Orwell
-inspired 2084. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Harkness | John Goode
calls Out of Worka sophisticated response to Engels
's critique [of A City Girl]. . . . Its protagonist becomes the register of vividly rendered experiences of the doss house, the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Highsmith | In these tales, animals affected by human callousness and cruelty carry out some startling acts of reprisal. As PH
herself puts it, animals get the better of their masters or owners, because the latter merit... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Deborah Levy | This book has four sections, each titled from a reason for writing, Political Purpose, Historical Impulse, Sheer Egoism, and Aesthetic Enthusiasm. The first and last describe a period of near-breakdown that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hilary Mantel | Vacant Possession takes up the story ten years later, in the significantly Orwellian
year of 1984, and is described by its author as a state-of-the-nation novel. Edemariam, Aida. “Interview with Hilary Mantel”. The Guardian, pp. 28 - 9. 28 |
Literary responses | T. S. Eliot | George Orwell
no doubt spoke for a section of Eliot's readership when he wrote in October 1942 of the first three quartets: There is very little in Eliot's later work that makes any deep impression... |
Literary responses | Zoë Fairbairns | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Frank Pike
, judged the novel ambitious yet unpretentious. Pike, Frank. “Catching Up: Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4003, p. 104. 104 Pike, Frank. “Catching Up: Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4003, p. 104. 104 |
Literary responses | Graham Greene | George Orwell
, once a colonial policeman himself, criticized the book harshly for its fascination with damnation and suicide. As he put it, Greene harboured the idea, which has been floating around ever since Baudelaire |
Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | To George Orwell
, a socially-committed writer of a later generation, this book showed a completely frivolous emphasis on technique, treating literature as a sort of embroidery, almost as though words did not have meanings... |
Literary responses | P. D. James | The film adapted from the novel by Alfonso Cuarón
, released in Britain in September 2006, was judged by a reviewer to have softened the blow of James's book just a little, even though it... |