Rosamond Lehmann

03 February 1901 - 14 March 1990

Standard Name: Lehmann, Rosamond

Birth Name: Rosamond Nina Lehmann

RL has received less critical attention than other women modernists, especially her closest literary colleagues Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf . However, after the reprinting of her work in the 1980s, her seven novels, her short stories, and one play became much better known. After the unexpected death of her daughter, RL ceased writing for about seven years. When she resumed she produced only one more novel, in addition to a memoir and spiritualist writings.

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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...
Friends, Associates	Jean Rhys	The bitterness in JR 's life had caused her to become an incurable alcoholic, so her marital happiness did not last, nor did her friendships. Those who tried to befriend her, including writers Rosamond Lehmann
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 included William Plomer , Sean O'Faolain , and Cyril Connolly . Virginia Woolf stayed there once; Iris Murdoch also...
Friends, Associates	Stevie Smith	SS developed lasting friendships with Naomi Mitchison and Rosamond Lehmann , both of whom reviewed her work. She was also close to US poet Naomi Replansky , with whom she corresponded before they met in 1969. Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage. 298-9
Health	Elizabeth Bowen	EB suffered from recurrent bouts of bronchitis and a chronic smoker's cough. In 1972, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent radium treatment. She lost her voice and had considerable difficulty breathing. She was...
Intertextuality and Influence	Simone de Beauvoir	The second part of her first section, Facts and Myths, draws valuably on analysis of male writers. SB reads Stendhal as decidedly feministic: Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translator Parshley, H. M., Jonathan Cape. 255 he not only values liberty but accepts it as...
Leisure and Society	Eleanor Farjeon	EF seems never to have read the modernist male poets, Eliot or Pound or Auden; however, she did read and appreciate such women as Rosamond Lehmann , Storm Jameson , Katherine Mansfield , and Virginia Woolf . Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae. 181
Literary responses	Stevie Smith	Novel on Yellow Paper was an immediate critical success. Appreciation expressed in reviews by Naomi Mitchison and Rosamond Lehmann laid the foundations for SS 's friendships with these and other writers. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 125 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. A poet, Robert Nichols
Literary responses	Elizabeth Bowen	Bowen's writing style was criticised as strained and contorted. Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press. 119 However, a current critic claims that the textual eccentricities Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press. 119 are integral to the novel's theme. Rosamond Lehmann expressed her admiration of The Heat of...
Literary responses	Stevie Smith	Rosamond Lehmann (already a friend) expressed some reservations in her review, mainly that the protagonist lets herself be caught in her illness and weakness and little-girlness. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 143 SS was insulted, but after the women had...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Jane Howard	It was after this novel that Robert Ostermann wrote of EJH in the National Observer as in the same class as Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen : female novelists of impressive intelligence and sensibilities that...
Literary responses	Dorothy Bussy	DB first wrote Olivia in 1933 and then sent the manuscript to her friend André Gide . Gide found it not very engaging Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press. 344 and, according to Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright ...
Literary responses	Jan Struther	Most reviewers in England were charmed by the book, but it was hated by E. M. Forster (who found it both snobbish and underbred), Rosamond Lehmann , and a voice on the letters page of...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Taylor	Like ET 's first book, this was praised by distinguished but not unanimous voices: Elizabeth Bowen found an exciting distinction about every page, and Rosamond Lehmann noted the stripped, piercing feminine wit and called ET
Literary responses	Elizabeth Taylor	One of the first to review this novel was Rosamond Lehmann ; some of her commendatory phrases are still in use in promotional material from Virago . Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 171 Today Sarah Waters (who published Tipping the...

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