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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 qtd. in Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press, 2000. 344 |
| 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. qtd. in Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988. 143 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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, 26 Apr. 2008. |
| Reception | Edith Mary Moore | In 1938, EMM
's name appeared in an early number of Kriticky Mesicnik, a Czech literary periodical edited by Václav Černý
(reprinted in 1972 and 1992), in a list of British writers including Rosamond Lehmann |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Bowen | The novel has two heroines: Portia, a fifteen-year-old, and Anna Quayne, wife of Thomas Quayne. Portia, Thomas' half-sister, comes to live with the Quaynes in their Regent's Park house (based on EB
's own London... |
| Textual Features | Marjorie Bowen | MB
credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson
's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson
's Miriam and... |
| Textual Features | Mollie Panter-Downes | This novel has many modernist features. Nicola Beauman mentions the influence of Rosamond Lehmann
, and also palpable is that of Virginia Woolf
. The first, two-page chapter describes the Sussex village of Wealding and... |
| 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, 1969. 222 |
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