Conville, David, and Dorothy Whipple. “Afterword”. The Priory, Persephone Books, pp. 529-36.
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Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | Colonel
and Mrs Williams
, the owners of Parciau, were far from pleased at finding themselves and their lives portrayed in fiction. Conville, David, and Dorothy Whipple. “Afterword”. The Priory, Persephone Books, pp. 529-36. 533 Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 99 |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | MB
was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain
, Walter de la Mare
, Compton Mackenzie
, and Hugh Walpole
, who... |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | In a lamentable Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 217 |
Literary responses | E. H. Young | One review discerned a possible influence from Dorothy Richardson
, but thought EHY
(whom it supposed to be male) a saner person than Richardson (whom it knew to be female). Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, pp. 303-31. 316-17 |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | George Moore
and Hugh Walpole
both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad
and Emily Brontë
.Again VSW
's mother
weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband
envisaged for her... |
Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | GS
's writing has been ruffling critics since Laura Riding
wrote in 1927 of her literalism, simple-mindedness, and successful barbarism. Hoffmann, Michael J. “Gertrude Stein in the Psychology Laboratory”. American Quarterly, Vol. 17 , No. 1, pp. 127-32. 130 |
Literary responses | Angela Thirkell | This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole
regretted its lack of plot. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth. 120 |
Literary responses | Molly Keane | At this time Hugh Walpole
called her one of the best half-dozen younger women writers now writing in England. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Given both the nature of the central event—a ball—and Olivia's youthful enthusiasm, the novel has been compared to Katherine Mansfield
's short story Her First Ball. It was an immediate success with the reviewers... |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | |
Literary responses | Rebecca West | Virginia Woolf
judged it to be in a different and higher league than the novels of Hugh Walpole
, although produced, like ornamental porcelain, according to a convention which was tight and affected and occasionally... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA
employed the first of a series of Cambridge
tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster
and Hugh Walpole
. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 96, 102, 120 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | During her first visit to Cornwall DR
met and became friendly with novelist Hugh Walpole
, who was there on holiday. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 63 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | Of the tutors Charles Erskine Stuart
became her admirer; E. M. Forster
discussed novel-writing with her; and Hugh Walpole
became her life-long friend. She invited Forster to Nassenheide on the recommendation of her nephew Sydney Waterlow |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Since VW
moved in a variety of social circles, her range of literary acquaintance was very wide. Her associates included such established, celebrated writers as Thomas Hardy and Henry James
, popular authors such as... |
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