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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Evelyn Waugh | The novel was a Book Society
Choice. |
| 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 | 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 | Lady Cynthia Asquith | The volume was a Book Society
recommendation. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
| 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 | Ann Bridge | |
| 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 |
| Reception | Christopher St John | The reviewer in British Book News wrote: This admirable volume forms a valuable complement to [Smyth's] own autobiographical works, which are minor masterpieces of English prose. British Book News. British Council. (1959): 345 |
| Reception | Penelope Mortimer | The novel was a Book Society
choice, Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion, 2005. 69 qtd. in Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 50 |
| Reception | Freya Stark | Recommended by the Book Society
and the Book Guild
, The Southern Gates of Arabia also received high praise in the Daily Telegraph, among other papers. FS
, rather surprisingly, was compared to Jane Austen |
| Reception | E. M. Delafield | Diary of a Provincial Lady received positive reviews, though some critics also drew attention to its limitations. Henry Seidel Canby
praised EMD
in The Saturday Review of Literature as one of the really skilful novelists... |
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