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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Sybille Bedford | SB
said she grew up with very little knowledge of people her own age, and in friendships and love affairs tended to seek out those of at least ten years older than herself. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint. 126 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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/. |
| Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Their friends included in Newcastle Quentin
and Anne Olivier Bell
, Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 228, 230-1 Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 208, 252 |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John
(wife of Augustus John
, and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann
, and Julia Strachey |
| Fictionalization | Dora Carrington | Contrasting sharply with these appropriations (all written by men), Carrington's friend Rosamond Lehmann
recreated her to some degree in Anna Cory in The Weather in the Streets: Lehmann's narrator notes that this character, a... |
| 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
)... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | His daughter Rosamond Nina Lehmann
, who was thus first cousin once removed to MMD
, became celebrated as a novelist. According to scholar Helen Small
, Rosamond Lehmann, who knew MMD
late in Dowie's... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Bowen | She had fallen in love with House, a lecturer in English who was eight years her junior, and whom biographer Victoria Glendinning describes as brilliant, highly sexed, introspective, [and] susceptible—much too introspective and susceptible to... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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