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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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Betty Miller | BM
's friends included Olivia Manning
, Rosamond Lehmann
, Stevie Smith
, Inez Holden
, Viola Meynell
, and Eleanor Farjeon
. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. xv |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Olivia Manning | It was re-issued in 1984 in an omnibus volume from Virago
together with two other novels about growing up female: Rosamond Lehmann
's The Weather in the Streets and Antonia White
's Frost in May. |
| Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | In her essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures, QDL
also developed varied critiques of such authors as Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
, Charlotte Yonge
, Marie Corelli
, Edith Wharton
, Naomi Mitchison
, Amabel Williams-Ellis |
| politics | Marghanita Laski | On 30 October 1958 ML
was one of the signatories to a letter to the editor of theTimes urging the government to cease testing nuclear weapons; others who signed included Peggy Ashcroft
, Storm Jameson |
| Friends, Associates | E. B. C. Jones | Her Cambridge friends included such literary names as Rosamond Lehmann
and George (Dadie) Rylands
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Reception | Elizabeth Jenkins | Rosamond Lehmann
recommended EJ
's writing to Carmen Callil
for inclusion in the Virago Modern Classics series. Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | He had taken it for granted that they would marry. She could not imagine rejecting such unbelievable luck. She assured her mother she did not need informing about the difficult side of marriage. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 116 |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Henry Green | HG
's affairs included one with his sister-in-law, and others with novelists Rosamond Lehmann
and Mary Keene
. Hill, Rosemary. “Flings”. London Review of Books, Vol. 35 , No. 4, pp. 23-4. 23-4 |
| Textual Production | Henry Green | Rosamond Lehmann
and Goronwy Rees
had been instrumental in introducing Green as a Hogarth Press author. Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown. 222 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Margiad Evans | She had been working on this collection as a whole since 1943, while one item, The Wicked Woman, dates from October 1933 (while she was writing Turf or Stone) and was printed in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | MMD
's maternal grandfather was Robert Chambers
of Edinburgh, who wrote Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (which, published anonymously, was briefly ascribed both to Augusta Ada Byron
and to Catherine Crowe
)... |
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