Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray.
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Reception | Elizabeth Goudge | This book was the foundation of international fame for EG
. It won a Metro Goldwyn Mayer
prize worth £30,000 in English money, for which the US publisher submitted it. (After various tax levies and... |
Reception | Jan Struther | This film flopped almost as dramatically as its predecessor had succeeded; MGM
lost $2,311,000. Ysenda Maxtone Graham
writes, It is a dreadful film. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 284 |
Reception | Rebecca West | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released a movie version of War Nurse in the same year. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library. 6, 98 |
Reception | Ethel Wilson | Lilly's Story was translated into German and published in Switzerland in 1952, entitled simply Lilly. This was also the title for the Danish edition which appeared in 1954. Both stories were published in an... |
Publishing | Henry Handel Richardson | At one time HHR
planned to convert her three-novel series into a set of four, to follow the fortunes of Richard Mahony's son Cuffy (a character who, despite his sex, has much of his author... |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
, with whom EG
had signed a contract to write film scripts, produced her film adaptation of her famous romance Three Weeks. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
Publishing | Jan Struther | |
Publishing | Aldous Huxley | Though AH
had a sturdy relationship with his book publisher—he renewed his three-year contract with Chatto and Windus
in 1941 for the seventh time—his film work during the war years was freelance. In 1939, before... |
Performance of text | Jan Struther | |
Performance of text | Aldous Huxley | |
Other Life Event | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Health | Jan Struther | This was ironic: she had recently been in litigation with the film studio MGM
for making an unauthorised film sequel to her famous Mrs. Miniver, in which they made the heroine die of cancer. |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | During the Second World War EB
became friendly with photographer Cecil Beaton
(with whom she exchanged plays), Lady Diana Cooper
, and actress Dame Edith Evans
. Later she also became a friend of MGM |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edna O'Brien | Ernest was by this time a relatively successful writer, but a controlling and disappointed man who was jealous of her talent. Enright, Anne. “An annoyance to Irish literary males”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 38-9. 38 |
Employer | Christina Stead | After her arrival in New York Stead spent several months reading unsolicited manuscripts without payment for New Masses (a Marxist publication edited by her friend Michael Gold
) because she wanted to see behind the... |
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