Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864.
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Friends, Associates | Susanna Watts | In her own more local circle, however, SW
was relaxed and good company. She belonged to a Book Society
. She was a close friend of the Hutton and the Coltman families and especially, in... |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society |
Occupation | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
led an active life. She remarked that the political unrest of 1822 affected her because she had ordinarily my father's business to transact. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864. 33 |
Occupation | Pamela Frankau | She participated in Brains Trusts, both on the famous BBC television programme and as a charity event for the Cenacle Convent
in Hampstead. She read books for the Book Society
jury, but found this... |
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... |
Occupation | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
worked occasionally for the BBC
from the late 1940s. She later became one of the Critics team (which meant regular recording sessions), and sat on the committee of the Book Society
, which she... |
Publishing | Pamela Frankau | At the outset of her career, in the years following Marriage of Harlequin, magazines paid her fantastic prices for short stories. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 118 |
Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 22 |
Reception | Lady Cynthia Asquith | The volume was a Book Society
recommendation. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
Reception | Evelyn Waugh | This novel was a Book Society
choice. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waughs Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and FallJane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181-0. 182 |
Reception | Olivia Manning | This novel was a Book Society
choice (OM
's third), but was badly reviewed by Nancy Spain
and Viola Garvin
. Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 157-8 |
Reception | Ann Bridge | |
Reception | Nancy Mitford | This enormously successful was also well reviewed. It was a Book Society
Choice, and earned NM
over £7,000 in the first six months, funding her move from England to Paris. Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton, 1985. 168 Fraser, Antonia. “A Most Superior Street”. Spectator.co.uk. Champagne for the brain. |
Reception | Angela Thirkell | It was chosen Book of the Month by the Book Society
. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977. 108 |
Reception | Nancy Mitford | Love in a Cold Climate enjoyed great popularity. It was the first novel to be simultaneously chosen as Book of the Month by the Book Society
, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard. Mitford, Nancy. “Critical Materials”. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993, p. various pages. 200 |
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