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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | VH
entertained here frequently: her sometimes piquantly mixed invitation lists included the names of H. D.
, D. H. Lawrence
, Ezra Pound
, Joseph Conrad
, Wyndham Lewis
, Walter de la Mare
... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | At this time NH
also became acquainted through a mutual friend with the writer Arthur Ransome
; he fondly nicknamed her Ham or Mademoiselle de Jambon. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. 23 Hooker, Denise. Nina Hamnett: queen of bohemia. Constable and Company Limited. 23 |
Textual Features | Stella Gibbons | Such earthy regionalists—who include Thomas Hardy
and D. H. Lawrence
, as well as Webb
and Kaye-Smith
—become the butt of SG
's satire in Cold Comfort Farm. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 66, 112 |
Textual Features | Stella Gibbons | The title page quotes Sir Thomas Browne
and Hans Christian Andersen
's The Snow Queen, and the book is loosely based on the fairy tale. The autobiographical heroine, Amy, is an aspiring writer working... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | CD
published the critical work Tradition and Hugh Walpole, in which she offered her views on the modern novel in English. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 134 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. Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson. (1929): 228 |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | After the death of Ethel M. M. McKenna
(editor of The Woman's Library, 1903), CD
became the closest woman friend of the novelist Hugh Walpole
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan. 143 |
Dedications | Richmal Crompton | She dedicated this book to her sister, Gwen
, and quoted Hugh Walpole
as her epigraph. |
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 | 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... |
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