George Barker

Standard Name: Barker, George

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Antonia White
Other lovers reputedly included George Barker , writer and journalist, Eric Siepmann (who was later married to the novelist Mary Wesley ), Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody , and Ian Henderson .
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
32, 33
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
182-3, 184, 198
Literary responses Kathleen Nott
In the TLSG. S. Fraser remarked that her poetry was difficult but rewarding, and likened it in different aspects to that of Dylan Thomas , George Barker , and William Empson . He concluded:...

Timeline

August 1945: Canadian poet, novelist, and critic Elizabeth...

Writing climate item

August 1945

Canadian poet, novelist, and critic Elizabeth Smart published her first novel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (written four years previously during her first pregnancy).
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, 1990.

Texts

Jennings, Elizabeth et al. “Letters to the Editor: Future of Radio”. Times, p. 11.