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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | LC
's Fenny (a Book Society
choice, and sometimes called her finest novel), was set in or near Florence during the Second World War and the years just before and after it. British Book News. British Council. (1953): 421 |
| Textual Production | Laura Riding | This was the first book LR
published with the new firm of Arthur Barker
in London. She took some trouble to disguise identities, since Barker was worried about potential libel actions. The Book Society
backed... |
| Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus
were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of... |
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