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Pamela Frankau
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Standard Name: Frankau, Pamela
Birth Name: Pamela Frankau
Pseudonym: Eliot Naylor
Married Name: Pamela Dill
PF
had a dazzling success with her first novel in 1927. She went on to publish more than thirty novels, as well as plays for stage and radio, short stories, autobiography, and an important anti-nuclear pamphlet. Despite several Virago
reprints, she has not received the critical attention she deserves.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Frankau | JF
's grand-daughter Pamela Frankau
was another family member who made a name for herself as a novelist. |
| Fictionalization | Rebecca West | West mentioned the story to Frankau just before its appearance, saying it was funny. Its publication caused a permanent rift between them, while Wolfe, though wounded, got over the wound. Four years later, Frankau
retaliated... |
| Friends, Associates | Rebecca West | Over her lifetime, RW
made countless friends. These included US journalist Dorothy Thompson
(whose long-lasting friendship with her is treated in Susan Hertog
's double biography Dangerous Ambition. Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women... |
| Friends, Associates | Margery Lawrence | Among ML
's close friends were the Irish diplomat and writer Sir Shane Leslie
and the English war-poet Humbert Wolfe
(lover of Pamela Frankau
). Lawrence, Margery, and Shane Leslie. Fourteen to Forty-Eight. Robert Hale, 1950. 11 |
| Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Apart from MBL
's established literary friends, there were many whose early writing she encouraged to particularly good effect: Graham Greene
, Margaret Kennedy
, Pamela Frankau
, E. M. Delafield
, and L. P. Hartley
. Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, Susan Lowndes Marques, and Marie Belloc Lowndes. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. prelims, 1 - 3. 2 |
| Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | The Towers of Trebizond won the James Black Tait prize. Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 203 Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969. 154 |
| Occupation | Rumer Godden | While living in Highgate RG
took to organizing readings: at Foyles
bookshop, promoting young poets; at Kenwood House; and for the Arts Council
, where she spent two years on the Poetry Panel... |
| Publishing | G. B. Stern | GBS
says she wrote one thriller, my first and last whodunit, Stern, G. B. ...And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 122 |
| Publishing | Rebecca West | RW
's novella or long short story The Addict, based on Pamela Frankau
's lover Humbert Wolfe
, appeared in Nash's Magazine. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 137 |
| Textual Features | G. B. Stern | For Long Lost FatherGBS
may be said to have borrowed the family myth of her friend Pamela Frankau
: the story of a daughter on the threshold of adulthood and an artistic career, suddenly... |
| Textual Production | Kate O'Brien | KOB
followed her first play (the previous year) with a second, The Bridge, opening this time at the Arts Theatre Club
. Contemporary Authors online gives the date of the first performance as 31... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | G. B. Stern | She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning
's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley
plain? Stern, G. B. ...And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. prelims |
Timeline
9 December 2006-17 July 2007
The National Portrait Gallery
in London mounted an exhibition of photographs of women writers, mostly novelists, from 1920 to 1960.