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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... |
Reception | Evelyn Waugh | This novel was a Book Society
choice. Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0. 182 |
Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | This book received very positive reviews from (among others) Elizabeth Janeway
in the New York Times, Elizabeth Bowen
in New Republic, Virginia Peterson
in the New York Herald Tribune, Simon Raven in... |
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. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 23 |
Reception | Lady Cynthia Asquith | The volume was a Book Society
recommendation. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 325 |
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. 157-8 |
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, pp. 529-36. 533 Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 99 |
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. 168 Fraser, Antonia. “A Most Superior Street”. Spectator.co.uk. Champagne for the brain. |
Reception | Dorothy Whipple | They Were Sisters too became a Book Society
Choice. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 147 Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 152 |
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, p. various pages. 200 |
Reception | Dorothy Whipple | Its publication, however, was unmarked by any major review. It was the first novel by DW
since her earliest of all not to be at least a Book Society
Recommendation, if not a Choice. DW |
Reception | Penelope Mortimer | The novel was a Book Society
choice, Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion. 69 Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 50 |
Reception | E. H. Young | This time The Spectator, pursuing the line of excessive modernist influence, called EHY
a thicker-skinned Virginia Woolf
. . . but hardly less bogged in the undifferentiated welter of phenomenal experience. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, pp. 303-31. 307 |
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... |
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