Reginald Donald Smith

Shortly before war broke out, OM married R. D. Smith , or Reggie, British Council lecturer and, later, BBC drama producer and university teacher of English.

Simon Gray was Pinter's favourite living playwright and favourite friend. Other friends included Sam Spiegel (who offered him a place to stay when he left his first marriage) and Reggie Smith (husband of the...

Her title, supplied by Reggie Smith and adapted from Shakespeare 's witches in Macbeth, catches the swirl of contradictory rumours in Cairo about the battle of El Alamein, out in the desert....

OM dedicated this novel to the memory of J. G. Farrell . Its brief coda, like the one that ends the first trilogy, was written at the suggestion of Reggie Smith .

As O. M. Manning she drafted and sent out for consideration two novels whose manuscripts she later burned, against the wishes of her husband .

Virago Press published The Writings of Anna Wickham , Free Woman and Poet, edited by R. D. Smith , a collection of her poetry and prose which includes several previously unpublished works.

Since AW 's death, however, attention to her has been largely confined to two posthumous editions of her work: Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett (Chatto & Windus, 1971), and Writings, edited by...

It was initially serialised in Harper's in the US. At the suggestion of publisher Reginald Smith , the preface intimated the connection of the novel with the notorious story of Lady Caroline's love-affair with...

Daphne and the novels that followed it (discussed below among her other later novels) sold so badly that publication of Delia Blanchflower, another major attack on women's suffrage, was delayed because Reginald Smith of...

Despite the fact that MAW had been a best-selling author, the poor showing of her recent books meant that Reginald Smith of Smith, Elder was for some time unable to place her next novel, the...

AW frankly expresses her frustrations with domestic duties and the disillusionment of married life: By the sacrifice of myself I have attempted to serve three generations of men. I seem to have ruined them all...

OM 's The Balkan Trilogy consists of three novels, The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, and Friends and Heroes, published between 1960 and 1965. L. W. Bailey writes that OM 's husband

AW contributed two poems for children to Princess Marie-José 's Children's Book, an anthology created to raise funds to feed and clothe...

R. D. Smith , AW 's editor (and widower of Olivia Manning ), indicates that she wrote a number of prose pieces between 1910 and 1915, of which only a handful are published in his...

Many of AW 's papers and letters—including most of Natalie Barney 's letters to her—were lost when Wickham's attic was destroyed by a fire-bomb in 1943. Some of her letters to Natalie Barney