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Rosamond Lehmann
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Literary responses | E. H. Young | The New York Times Book Review found this book charmingly realistic; 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. 315 |
| Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Margaret Jourdain
(herself the author of many books in print) told the antiquarian Joan Evans
, Ivy has written a book and I expect it's very bad. We have decided I shan't read it and... |
| Literary responses | Betty Miller | Rosamond Lehmann
praised this novel in a letter as intelligent, brave enough to tackle a serious moral problem, written with wonderful vividness and sensitivity, and excellent in its character-drawing of men as well as women... |
| Literary responses | Mary Renault | Early reviews were discouraging. Anthony West
in The New Statesman and Nation criticised MR
for ignoring the significant upheavals in a real world at war. Rosamond Lehmann
, in The Spectator, perceptively noted that... |
| Literary responses | Stella Gibbons | SG
's Cold Comfort Farm won the Prix Femina Vie-Heureuse, worth forty pounds (as Webb
's Precious Bane had done only seven years previously). Gibbons's award was presented in June 1934. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 5: 303-4 and 303n1 |
| Literary responses | Dorothy L. Sayers | Q. D. Leavis
disliked this novel, and wrote a scathing review of it and its successor, Busman's Honeymoon, in Scrutiny. Leavis attacked DLS
's reputation for literariness, holding it against her that... |
| 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. |
| 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 Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press. 119 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 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... |
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