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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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | Barbara Pym | The sales of this second novel nearly doubled those of Pym's first: Excellent Women sold 5,477 copies in the two months to June 1952, while Some Tame Gazelle sold only 3,722 in the thirteen years... |
Reception | Pamela Frankau | Reviews were highly positive. The Sunday Times said that PFuses a large canvas with great deftness, and her dialogue is a joy. qtd. in Frankau, Pamela. The Willow Cabin. Pan Books, 1966. back cover |
Reception | Rumer Godden | RG
herself had misgivings about Gypsy, Gypsy, but her publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies
wrote of being enchanted by the story. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan, 1987. 143 |
Reception | Dorothy Whipple | A reader at Curtis Brown
praised DW
's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell
at John Murray
wrote: Much her best work and the former was good. qtd. in Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 23 |
Reception | Winifred Holtby | South Riding was enormously successful. It was chosen by the Book Society
as their Book of the Month for March, and sold 25,000 copies within the first three weeks of its publication. In 1937 it... |
Reception | Dorothy Whipple | Colonel
and Mrs Williams
, the owners of Parciau, were far from pleased at finding themselves and their lives portrayed in fiction. Conville, David, and Dorothy Whipple. “Afterword”. The Priory, Persephone Books, 2003, pp. 529-36. 533 Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 99 |
Reception | Storm Jameson | The Hidden River had some bad reviews in influential places, but excellent sales. It was a Book Society
choice, earning £2,500 in English royalties, £268 from Book-of-the-Month Club
in Canada, and a dollar amount... |
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