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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 descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Textual Production | Stevie Smith | She asked Rosamond Lehmann
for her opinion before the collection reached print. Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage. 265-6 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | Between the summers of 1933 and 1934, JS
had an affair with Wogan Phillips
, husband of her acquaintance Rosamond Lehmann
. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 116, 123, 138 |
| 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 |
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