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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Using colours inspired by his Crown Derby china, she painted George Dadie Rylands
's rooms at King's College, Cambridge
that same year. She painted rooms for Dorelia John
, 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... |
| 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 Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press. 344 |
| Dedications | Anita Brookner | AB
published a great popular hit which remains her best-known novel, Hotel du Lac; it is dedicated to Rosamond Lehmann
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Bowen | This vintage volume was edited by a group of authors including Rosamond Lehmann
and Cecil Day Lewis
. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 215 |
| 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... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bowen | Her biographer Victoria Glendinning
believes that her Anglicanism
was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
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