Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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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... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | 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 | Freya Stark | Visitors to Asolo (as well as hosts to Stark in England) during this period include Nancy, Lady Astor
, Lord David Cecil
, and Vita Sackville-West
and Harold Nicolson
. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999. 327 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | This friendship led to others for DW
, for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil
, Sir William Rothenstein
, Rex Whistler
, H. A. L. Fisher |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | SB
met Lord David Cecil
at a dinner with Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, after which they all went on to Clive
and Vanessa Bell
's house. 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... |
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... |
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... |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Lord David Cecil
, a literary historian and a correspondent of LCA
, thought her letters just as amusing and charming and individual as those of Dorothy Osborne
, Lady Sarah Lennox
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, or Emily Eden
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 313 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | 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... |
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... |
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... |
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, 1987. 1979 Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 507 |
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