Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Elizabeth Taylor | Blanche Knopf
asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET
replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise... |
| Publishing | Willa Cather | On her travels in France in 1920 she had done research for this novel. Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xliv. ix |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Alice Munro | This collection had an unusually complex and tortuous history. At one point AM
intended it to contain two groups of stories, those centred on the main character, Rose, and others involving another woman named Janet... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Reception was mixed: some critics awarded high praise, but the American publisher Alfred Knopf
wrote to Heinemann
: the novel is most decidedly not my kind of book . . . . Mrs Dawson Scott... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Like ET
's first book, this was praised by distinguished but not unanimous voices: Elizabeth Bowen
found an exciting distinction about every page, and Rosamond Lehmann
noted the stripped, piercing feminine wit and called ET |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's effect on other writers has been estimated as very strong. Those she influenced include May Sinclair
(whose novel Mary Olivier was also serialised in the Little Review), Romer Wilson
, and C. A. Dawson-Scott |
| Friends, Associates | Muriel Spark | |
| Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | Jameson met Romer Wilson
, Charles Morgan
, and J. W. N. Sullivan
through her Knopf
connections. By about 1924 she and Edith Sitwell
had visited each other's homes. Jameson felt that in spite of... |
| Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | She was once charged by Knopf
with the task of attempting to persuade Wyndham Lewis
to keep them as his American publisher, which she did on a cold, rainy day as vile as his temper... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Storm Jameson | Though the reunion of Jameson and her son was not permanent, they moved to Weybridge at some point in 1924. She began work on her fifth novel, as her Knopf
salary did not cover their... |
| Employer | Storm Jameson | SJ
worked as a publishing representative for Alfred A. Knopf
in London. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 75 Feinstein, Elaine, and Storm Jameson. “Introduction”. None Turn Back, Virago, p. i - vii. i |
| Employer | Storm Jameson | SJ
was co-manager of Alfred A. Knopf
's London branch with Guy Patterson Chapman
(who became her husband on 1 February 1926). Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 81-2 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 47 |
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