Betty Askwith

Standard Name: Askwith, Betty

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Diana Athill
Part one is the story of the publishing houses that DA worked with. She begins by explaining that business figures (which someone had mentioned as the key to an interesting book about publishing) would not...
Dedications Theodora Benson
TB published her first novel, Salad Days, with a dedication to her friend and future collaborator Betty Askwith . The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Cleopatra.
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Textual Production Theodora Benson
TB 's next novel, Lobster Quadrille, was written in collaboration with Betty Askwith (who had already published a book of verse).
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Publishing Theodora Benson
Together with Betty Askwith , TB published Foreigners; or, The World in a Nutshell, a book of humorous sketches with pictures by Nicolas Bentley ; by December it was in its third impression.
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Textual Production Theodora Benson
TB , again with Askwith and Bentley , followed Foreigners with Muddling Through; or, Britain in a Nutshell; this time December found the book on only its second impression.
Benson, Theodora et al. Muddling Through. Victor Gollancz.
prelims
Author summary Theodora Benson
TB published over a thirty-year span in the earlier twentieth century. Most immediately successful among her works in terms of sales were books of the currently fashionable flippant humour, most of them in collaboration with...
Friends, Associates Theodora Benson
TB enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay and Howard Spring . She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith (daughter of an old friend of her mother's)...
Travel Theodora Benson
Not long after this she and her friend Betty Askwith set out together for Greece (which Askwith wanted to visit) and Yugoslavia and Albania (which Benson wanted to visit). The tourist trade was not even...
Textual Production Theodora Benson
TB followed this in 1931 with two novels, Shallow Water (with illustrations by Ward) and Which Way? She collaborated with Betty Askwith again in Seven Basketfuls, 1932.
Literary responses Theodora Benson
Richard Sunne wrote in the New Statesman and Nation of Shallow Water, Miss Benson's soufflé is perfect, and she serves it under a magical salamander, so that each piece retains its lightness and its...
Textual Production Theodora Benson
She followed this the next year with The Unambitious Journey, published for once under the name of The Hon. Theodora Benson, about a journey to Greece, Yugoslavia, and Albania: a...
Textual Features Theodora Benson
Her contributors include Louis Golding on his first time horse-racing and Beverley Nichols on having an Affaire. Betty Askwith wrote of being bitten with the travel bug (on a journey in company with TB
Literary responses Theodora Benson
Askwith wrote after Benson's death that the fun they had compiling these books stood quite apart from Benson's serious writing.
Askwith, Betty. “Miss Theodora Benson”. Times, No. 57458, p. 8.
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Literary responses Theodora Benson
Elizabeth Jenkins wrote that The White Sea Monkey was not only the most terrifying story I ever read, but the most characteristic expression of her, in its agonized compassion and its understanding of the human...
Literary responses Theodora Benson
John Betjeman , reviewing this book in the Daily Herald, called it a beautiful novel. . . . Full of acute feminine observation, drinks, jokes, talk in keeping with its varied characters, atmosphere and...

Timeline

By mid-October 1930: W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman published...

Writing climate item

By mid-October 1930

W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman published 1066 and All That, which was subtitled A memorable history of England: comprising, all the parts you can remember.

Texts

Benson, Theodora et al. Foreigners. Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Benson, Theodora et al. How to be Famous. Victor Gollancz, 1937.
Benson, Theodora, and Betty Askwith. Lobster Quadrille. Grant Richards, 1930.
Askwith, Betty. “Miss Theodora Benson”. Times, No. 57458, p. 8.
Benson, Theodora et al. Muddling Through. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Benson, Theodora, and Betty Askwith. Seven Basketfuls. Victor Gollancz, 1932.