She was a lifelong friend of Bernard Levin
, a well-known journalist whom she met on her first day working for Truth. Joost de Blank
(who later became a bishop and eventually Archbishop of...
Literary responses
Harold Pinter
Nevertheless, reviews in the daily and Sunday papers were bad (including those of Bernard Levin
and, more surprisingly, Michael Billington
).
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
101-2, 112
Benedict Nightingale
in the New Statesman provided an appreciative notice and called...
Literary responses
Rumer Godden
Levin
responded not with a review but by reproducing one of the book's ancient and exquisite illustrations in his Times column.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
213
were most of them low-key, though Bernard Levin
greeted it with a broadside against its village setting, which, he said, reinforced his conviction that the best...
Literary responses
Harold Pinter
Bernard Levin
called the play, in a revival of 1978, unendurable.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
93
In the ODNB a quarter-century later, Michael Billington
called it a rich climax to Pinter's naturalistic writing for the theatre.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception
Ethel Mannin
In a letter to The Times in December 1976 (answering a piece in which Bernard Levin
, forty-five years after the appearance of her indexed novel, said he had never seen a novel with an...
Textual Features
Caroline Blackwood
This work was roughly handled, with insult and derision, by Bernard Levin
in The Times.
Schoenberger, Nancy. Dangerous Muse, A Life of Caroline Blackwood. Phoenix, 2002.
284-5
Textual Production
Rumer Godden
She was provoked to this by Bernard Levin
's writing in his essay Malediction Against Dogs that pekinese were not dogs but cats. RG
's title comes from the legendary origins of the first pekinese...