It was suggested to Vivian Ridler that he was indicating insufficient commitment; personal relations within the Press appear to have had something to do with it. He found another job setting up a private press...
Family and Intimate relationships
Kamila Shamsie
KS
's maternal grandmother was memoirist Jahanara Habibullah
. A relative of great poets and patrons of art and literature, Habibullah was educated in Persian, Arabic, and English in addition to her native Urdu.
Shamsie, Muneeza. “Discovering the Matrix”. Critical Muslim 4, edited by Robin Yassin-Kassab et al., C. Hurst & Co, 2012, pp. 165-76.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
May Cannan
One of MC
's three best friends was almost certainly Bevil Quiller-Couch
, son of her father's ex-pupil and close friend Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
. The father, called Q, was a leader in the...
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Moggach, Deborah. “Autobiography”. Deborah Moggach: About Deborah.
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby
married Vivian Ridler
, although their wedding plans were much overshadowed by the international situation,
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
116
and the bridegroom had been given notice at Oxford University Press
on account of his engagement.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
114-15
Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 27. Gale Research, 1980.
27: 299
Family and Intimate relationships
Alicia D'Anvers
Her father, Samuel Clarke, a former Beadle of Law and first director of printing at Oxford University Press
(architypographus), died when his daughter Alice was still a toddler. He was celebrated for his...
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
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Fictionalization
Margaret Catchpole
Richard Cobbold
, son of Elizabeth Cobbold
, and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC
's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was...
Literary responses
Philip Larkin
Unfavourable reponse began with Dan Davin
, Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press
, who urged Larkin to reconsider some choices (and did succeed in getting him to admit a few poems by...
Literary responses
Flora Thompson
Before publication, the US manager of Oxford University Press
had written to praise the book's amazing English quality of permanence and repose, and to enquire for information about the author.
qtd. in
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
The earliest reviews, said EJ
, were not encouraging and some were both tepid and denigratory . . . because [the reviewers] felt it was a dead bore to have to read about Jane Austen...
Occupation
May Cannan
MC
took a break from employment at Oxford University Press
to work in the cafe at Rouen station, the last stop for British soldiers in France en route for Railhead and the Front.
Until 1929 she was an editor (and the only female editor) of the ten-volume Tudor Church Music, under the general editorship of Dr Percy Buck
and published by Oxford University Press
from 1922 to 1929.
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.