Morgan, Elaine, and F. Tennyson Jesse. “Introduction”. A Pin to See the Peep Show, Virago, 1979.
Edith Thompson
Standard Name: Thompson, Edith
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | F. Tennyson Jesse | The novel's conclusion was immediately associated with the sensational Thompson
-Bywaters
murder case of 1922 (about which René Weis
published a study in 1988). “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 77 |
| Textual Features | Lucas Malet | This novel takes up the story abruptly ended in The Dogs of Want. Sir Robert Syme, recently appointed a judge, has also not long ago become the husband of that novel's protagonist Barbara Heritage... |
| Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | EMD
published a crime novel, Messalina of the Suburbs, based on the much publicized Thompson
-Bywaters
murder case. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Delafield, E. M. Messalina of the Suburbs. Hutchinson, 1923. prelims OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | Contemporary newspapers were filled with sensationalized stories of the trial and execution of Edith Thompson
and her lover Frederick Bywaters
for the murder of Thompson's husband. McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985. 31 |
Timeline
12 October 1897: Nearly four years after the appearance of...
Writing climate item
12 October 1897
Nearly four years after the appearance of the first fascicle (A-ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary, a great dinner was held at Queen's College, Oxford
, for its volunteer readers, including women.
Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman. HarperCollins, 1998.
163-4, 147
6-11 December 1922: Edith Thompson and her younger lover Frederick...
Building item
6-11 December 1922
Edith Thompson
and her younger lover Frederick Bywaters
were tried for the murder of her husband, Percy Thompson
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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