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Reception | Agatha Christie | In the early twenty-first century Penguin Putnam
had around sixty AC
titles in print. The BBC
issued VHS and in some case DVD sets of series of her works featuring Margaret Rutherford
as Miss Marple... |
Reception | Edith Somerville | ES
's nephew Nevill Coghill
broadcast a talk about her for the BBC
: she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross
. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 274-6 |
Reception | Olivia Manning | It was a disappointment to OM
when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis
, was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning? Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 2 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 325 |
Reception | Elspeth Huxley | She was always feisty about the amount she was paid: for her first broadcast she queried the BBC
's provision of eight guineas since she had heard that the standard fee was ten. She was... |
Reception | Richmal Crompton | Critics were unfailingly enthusiastic, and the William books (with their US editions and European translations) were distributed and translated widely. Williams, Kay. Just Richmal. Genesis. 140 |
Reception | Penelope Fitzgerald | Mollie Hardwick
in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Reception | Barbara Pym | Initially, this novel sold fewer copies than any of BP
's previous books. Even after an excerpt was broadcast on BBC
's Woman's Hour in 1965, sales continued to be low. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 103-4 |
Reception | E. Arnot Robertson | |
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 | Frances Bellerby | During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region
programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley
. John Lehmann
read one of FB
's poems on the Third Programme... |
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 |
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