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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Monica Dickens | Persephone
's webside quotes two excellent reviews from the date of first publication—one from John Betjeman
and one from Elizabeth Bowen
. |
| Literary responses | Cicely Hamilton | This novel was awarded the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse in early 1920. Hamilton, Cicely. Life Errant. J. M. Dent and Sons. 157 |
| Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | Reviews were mixed. The San Francisco Chronicle called this a tour-de-force of its kind,, a little jewel of horror. The Times Literary Supplement dismissed it as surprisingly sentimental and not a very original story... |
| Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The website of Persephone Books
, recent publishers of this novel, argues that Bettina is one of the great self-reliant heroines of fiction, and that the focus of the novel falls on her American energy... |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | DW
was an unacknowledged favourite of Ivy Compton-Burnett
and evidently of Elizabeth Taylor
too, since Taylor borrowed for her novel Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont from the opening of a story among Whipple's papers, which... |
| Literary responses | Susan Miles | This book appeared with very distinguished endorsement on its jacket. T. S. Eliot
wrote that he found it a very poignant story.Storm Jameson
wrote, Its simplicities are at a profound level. The theme is... |
| Dedications | Noel Streatfeild | NS
published an adult novel entitled Saplings (dedicated to her mother), which was chosen by Persephone Books
for reprinting in 2000. Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne. 64-5 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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