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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bowen | Frequent guests at Bowen's Court (where, says Victoria Glendinning, they ate and drank royally) Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 254 |
Friends, Associates | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Her friends included writers Laurens van der Post
and William Plomer
(who was also a reader for her publisher, Jonathan Cape
). They also included her housekeeper, Ellen Beckwith
(with whom she put herself on... |
Occupation | Lilian Bowes Lyon | According to her fellow-author William Plomer
, writing to the Times after her death, she had three times during the last weeks of her life paid visits to patients at London hospitals for the incurable... |
Textual Production | Lilian Bowes Lyon | LBL
's work has been reprinted in The World Split Open, 1984, edited by Louise Bernikow
; it has been discussed by Margaret Willy
(in Essays and Studies, 1952), and Anne Treneer
(in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | Mary's brother, Anthony Bacon Drury Butts
(Tony) was eleven years her junior. He became a painter and also an author under the pen name William d'Arfey. Although MB
spoke affectionately of her brother, he... |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's Epilogue relates her own anxiety, on the day the book was first published, about its probable reception. She was flooded with relief, joy, gratitude, at finding both Cyril Connolly
and Philip Toynbee |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
published in a new genre for her: a volume of reminiscences entitled Paper Houses: a Memoir of the '70s and beyond. (The first part of her title had been used by William Plomer |
Friends, Associates | Christopher St John | Audience members included Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, Stephen Spender
, William Plomer
, Raymond Mortimer
, Eddy Sackville-West
, and Eardley Knollys
. |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford
, Joan Adeney Easdale
, Ida Graves
, Vita Sackville-West
, Margaret Thomas
(as editor), Julian Bell
, Cecil Day-Lewis
, John Lehmann
, F. L. Lucas |
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