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Julian Symons
Standard Name: Symons, Julian
Used Form: Julian Gustave Symons
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Ngaio Marsh | Asked for a short story by Julian Symons
in 1978, for a volume in aid of the Detection Club
and specified to include trial by jury, she turned in the brilliant Morepork (titled from the... |
| Literary responses | Josephine Tey | The Daughter of Time was extremely well received when it was first published, and it remains Tey's best-known work. Crime writer Anthony Boucher
gave it high praise for originality: The result is a real bouleversement... |
| Literary responses | Nina Hamnett | Julian Symons
in the TLS called this an extraordinary compound of personal stories, tall stories, and good or bad jokes, which takes its colour—and a vivid colour too—from Miss Hamnett's personality. |
| Literary responses | Margery Allingham | Anticipation about the latest MA
resulted in a reprint even before publication date. 10,000 copies sold within two weeks. Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 211 |
| Literary responses | Beryl Bainbridge | Reviews were disappointing. The Observer's majestic dismissal was not out of tune with others: this novel spectacularly fails to convince that there is hard imaginative currency supporting its considerable literary pretension. qtd. in King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 281 |
| Literary responses | Nina Bawden | NB
's second book, The Odd Flamingo, 1954, another crime novel, has been described by Julian Symons
as a sinister fairy tale rather than of grubby actuality. He included The Odd Flamingo in his... |
| Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | Again reviewers were highly complimentary. Julian Symons
in the Sunday Times praised the care with which EF
had shaped her book, and her fine sense of the way in which people . . . think... |
| Reception | Eudora Welty | The TLS published two notices of contradictory tone in a single issue. The first reviewer, from the Manchester Guardian, found the collection brilliantly successful and EW
possessed of a remarkable power of creating a... |
| Reception | Alice Munro | More than her previous collection, this volume established AM
's reputation. In Britain she was hailed by Julian Symons
as interesting . . . remarkable, and (along with Margaret Atwood
) as distinctly Canadian... |
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Texts
Symons, Julian. “Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2531, p. 481.