In her day EJ
knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie
, whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen.
qtd. in
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
148
She counted among her...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Jenkins
This book was inspired by the scholar A. L. Rowse
, and by a visit to him and her publisher friend Raleigh Trevelyan
at their houses in Cornwall. It treated Arthur not as a...
Publishing
Christine Brooke-Rose
This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan
of Michael Joseph
—who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press, 2002.
128
Her choice of title was over-ruled because her publisher mistakenly...
Textual Production
Christine Brooke-Rose
Her new publisher, the firm of Michael Joseph
(in the person of her real friend Raleigh Trevelyan
), issued what was then regarded as the small print-run of three thousand copies.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
231
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press, 2002.
