Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Graham Greene
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Standard Name: Greene, Graham
Birth Name: Henry Graham Greene
An English novelist of exceptional energy, Graham Greene
built a career spanning a dozen genres—most notably more than twenty novels or thrillers, as well as short stories, film reviews, travel books, plays, screenplays, and autobiography. Many of his novels wrestle with issues of belief. His personal correspondence included thousands of letters, and for much of his life he reported as a spy to the British Secret Intelligence Service
. His restlessness drew him to dangerous places, adulterous relationships, self-harm, and a belief, infusing his pages, that a focus on squalor makes for an honest portrayal of the world.
She was assisted during her illness (at the behest of Derek Stanford
)
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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by many friends, and treated without fees by her doctor, also an old friend. Throughout her convalescence she was supported by...
Textual Production
Lesley Storm
In 1953 she adapted another work by Graham Greene
, this time his novel The Heart of the Matter. The screenplay is set in 1942, and tells the story of a deeply Catholic police...
Textual Production
Patricia Highsmith
PH
published a short-story collection, The Snail-Watcher, and Other Stories, in New York, which was published in Britain as Eleven: Short Stories, with a foreword by Graham Greene
.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
62
Textual Production
Patricia Highsmith
Though the ideal cannot normally be achieved, she says, writing a book is really a long continuous process, which, ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep.
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press.
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...
Textual Production
Zadie Smith
ZS
excels at what could be called appreciation pieces. She published a hyperbolic and loving eulogy on the recently dead Katharine Hepburn
in 2003, and a fine assessment of Graham Greene
for his centenary in...
Textual Production
Sybille Bedford
SB
began reviewing for the New York Review of Books by 1963, and covered a wide range of genres: literary history (a book on Oscar Wilde
), fiction (Graham Greene
), travel writing (...
Textual Production
Mary Stewart
MS
was bored by modern movements like the anti-novel, the sicks and the beats, but felt there was a place for them: they're trying things out, keeping literature alive and moving.
Stewart, Mary. “Mary Stewart”. Counterpoint, edited by Roy Newquist, George Allen & Unwin , pp. 561-7.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
She also co-wrote, with Graham Greene
and William Templeton
, the screenplay for...
Textual Features
Ann Quin
Set in an unnamed town, which is clearly Brighton, the novel is, as Giles Gordon
describes it, a Graham Greene
thriller as if reworked by a somewhat romantic Burroughs
.
Gordon, Giles, and Ann Quin. “Introduction”. Berg, 1st Dalkey Archive edition, Dalkey Archive, p. vii - xiv.
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The first sentence—the...
Reception
Antonia White
AW
had used Sylvaine's name for a fictional actress flourishing some years before the real June Sylvaine was born. Her publisher, Eyre and Spottiswoode
, played safe by withdrawing copies of the book. The case...
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Publishing
Josephine Tey
The first publication by Gordon Daviot (wrongly spelled as Davitt) was a poem in the Weekly Westminster (latest title of the Westminster Gazette), in an issue which also included work by Graham Greene
.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
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Publishing
Antonia White
It then appeared as the first book issued by the new firm of Desmond Harmsworth
, whose founder and owner was the lover of AW
's friend Wyn Henderson
. Two thousand copies were printed...
Timeline
13 January 1950: Carol Reed's most successful film, The Third...
Building item
13 January 1950
Carol Reed
's most successful film, The Third Man, starring Orson Welles
, opened in London.
30 May 1967: Colonel Emeka Ojukwu of Eastern Nigeria made...
National or international item
30 May 1967
Colonel Emeka Ojukwu
of Eastern Nigeria made a unilateral declaration of independence on the part of the Ibo people, which set up the Republic of Biafra.
By late October 1975: The short-story volume Angels at the Ritz,...
Writing climate item
By late October 1975
The short-story volume Angels at the Ritz, by expatriate Irish writer William Trevor (born Trevor Cox
in 1928), was hailed by Graham Greene
as probably the best collection of stories since Joyce
's Dubliners.
Summer 2005: News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction...
Women writers item
Summer 2005
News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year, Judith Kelly
's Rock Me Gently, included passages almost verbally identical with passages by other authors.
Texts
White, Antonia. “A Child of the Five Wounds”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 209-26.
Greene, Graham. Brighton Rock. Heinemann, 1938.
Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Benson, Theodora. “Hot-Water-Bottle Love”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 27-36.
Greene, Graham, and Marjorie Bowen. “Introductory Note”. The Viper of Milan, Bodley Head, 1960, pp. 9-10.
Robertson, E. Arnot. “Potting Shed of the English Rose”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 153-64.
Ford, Ford Madox, and Graham Greene. The Ford Madox Ford Reader. Editor Stang, Sondra J., Carcanet, 1986.
Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. Heinemann, 1948.
Greene, Graham. The Human Factor. Bodley Head, 1978.
Bowen, Elizabeth. “The Mulberry Tree”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 37-51.
Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. Heinemann, 1955.
Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1980.
