BP
wrote steadily throughout her life, regardless of changes in occupation. One of the benefits of her first publication, Some Tame Gazelle, in 1950 was the introduction of various authors into her personal and...
Friends, Associates
Ruth Pitter
Despite her singularly unleisured lifestyle, RP
had a remarkable talent for friendship, which extended to people with whom she might be expected to have little in common. Her friendship with Lord David Cecil
brought her...
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan, 1987.
254, 255
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Bowen
EB
loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John
and Susan Buchan
, and it was through them that she...
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
327
Friends, Associates
Barbara Pym
BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
44
Intertextuality and Influence
G. B. Stern
GBS
opens the second Austen book with an amusing account of an interview with a seventeen-and-a-half-year-old niece who relates how she has fallen seriously in love with a dashing army officer who is her ideal...
Leisure and Society
Barbara Pym
Pym appeared again on BBC radio and television programmes after her broadcast meeting with Lord David Cecil
: she was on Finding a Voice and the very popular Desert Island Discs, which is always...
Early twentieth-century critics represented EG
as a thoroughly domestic and womanly woman—Lord David Cecil
in Early Victorian Novelists described her as the typical Victorian woman: gentle, domestic, tactful, unintellectual, prone to tears, easily...
Literary responses
Iris Tree
In his introduction Betjeman
calls the poem strangely haunting, and judges that It belongs to the age of the 1920's [sic] and early 30's [sic], both in phraseology and outlook. According to him, it is...
Reception
Flora Thompson
Discovered only a few years before she died, FT
was then rediscovered almost before she had been forgotten. Margaret Lane
's article in Cornhill Magazine awakened an interest in her which led to further publication...
Reception
Barbara Pym
BP
was the only living writer named as under-rated by two people, Philip Larkin
and Lord David Cecil
, in a list compiled by the Times Literary Supplement of the most over- and under-rated authors...
Textual Production
Iris Murdoch
IM
dedicated to Lord David
and Rachel Cecil
her novel entitled The Nice and the Good.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1979
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
507
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Texts
Church, Richard et al. “A Superb Craftsman”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 46-9.
Cecil, Lord David. Early Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation. Constable, 1934.
Parker, Derek et al. “Echo and Eclogue”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 98-102.
Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40.
Cecil, Lord David, and Mary MacCarthy. “Foreword”. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood, Constable, 1985, pp. 5-13.
Marsh, Ngaio et al. “From Gratitude”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 96-7.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Lewis, Naomi et al. “Rare Bird”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 83-91.
Arlott, John et al. “The Cool Clear Voice”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 41-4.
Grenfell, Joyce et al. “The Strawberry Tray”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 55-7.
Kizer, Carolyn et al. “Thralldom”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 79-80.