MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
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Textual Features | Viola Meynell | Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark
, as well as Bernard Shaw
, Siegfried Sassoon
, and Walter de la Mare
. This volume was adapted for television by the BBC
in 1988, without crediting VM
. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen. 349 |
Reception | Githa Sowerby | The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look Sowerby, Githa. “Rutherford and Son”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, pp. 133-89. 188 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | |
Reception | E. H. Young | Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY
appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield |
Reception | Enid Blyton | During the second world war EB
's reputation ensured her access to paper despite shortages and to her publisher's list despite the curtailment of such lists in general. She received practically no rejections of her... |
Reception | George Eliot | The novel has never been a feature film, but was adapted as a highly successful BBC
television series in 1994. Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon. 529 |
Reception | Doris Lessing | This novel was, however, highly and perceptively praised by Anita Brookner
in a retrospective review reprinted in her Soundings, 1997. The Royal Swedish Academy
in 2007 called it one of the handful of books... |
Reception | George Eliot | A BBC
adaptation of the novel, 2002, made marital rape a major feature in its interpretation of Grandcourt's silent cruelty which, as critic Andrew Dowling
notes, operates as a sign of some truth beyond itself... |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Spark's editor, Alan Maclean
, told her: You've hit the jackpot today. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 213 |
Reception | Rosemary Sutcliff | The TLS review pronounced that RS
had steadily improved at her craft, but that the book under review still had drawbacks: over-sweetness of writing and some sentimentality in the personal relationships. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2755 (19 November 1954): 748 |
Reception | Anne Devlin | AD
has read two of these stories on BBC Radio 4
: Five Notes after a Visit (1986) and First Bite (1990). Devlin, Anne. The Way-Paver. Faber and Faber. prelims “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. |
Reception | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The Times Literary Supplement judged the original to be a singularly interesting book—written by a German for Germans in the shadow of the First World War—and that Hamilton's translation was of exceptional excellence. Stannard, Harold Martin. “A German on England”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1466, p. 175. 175 |
Reception | Jackie Kay | Lesley McDowell
, reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, called JKone of our most notable and challenging poets. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
Reception | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Reviewer John Pemble
mentions the whole archive of mock research in pseudo-academic publications dedicated to [Holmes's] life and work. Contributors to the BBC
's centenary tribute in 1954 all expressed the hope that Holmes was... |
Reception | Josephine Tey | Tey's novel was made into a BBC
television movie in 1986. It was also the unacknowledged basis for the 1963 film Paranoiac, directed by Freddie Francis
. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. Penguin. front cover |
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