In Connecticut she attended a party to celebrate the recent publication of Marguerite Young
's novel Miss MacIntosh, my darling. Commenting on this nearly two-thousand-page tome, AQ
noted if Edith Sitwell
had written a...
Friends, Associates
Anna Kavan
After her relationship with Stuart Edmonds ended, AK
developed a large and close circle of friends who doted on her. Her friends were almost exclusively homosexual men, and she developed a reputation for not getting...
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
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Literary responses
Anna Kavan
Anaïs Nin
, in The Novel of the Future, pronounced AK
's Asylum Piece to be a classic equal to the work of Kafka
.
Nin, Anaïs. The Novel of the Future. Macmillan, 1968.
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Nin, Anaïs. The Novel of the Future. Macmillan, 1968.
171
Literary responses
Alice Walker
The Christian Science Monitor review praised the collection both for universality and for specificity of description.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
231
Jane Cooper
found it a wonderful book, in which the grief opens bottomlessly through the violence and the...
Textual Production
Alice Walker
As a member of staff at Ms. magazine (from December 1974) AW
exerted an influence on contemporary writing not only through the writers she chose to publish but through her own contributions to the magazine...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Michèle Roberts
This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR
discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...
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Texts
Nin, Anaïs. The Novel of the Future. Macmillan, 1968.