Randall Jarrell

HA and her husband were still in mid or even early career when Randall Jarrell portrayed them in Pictures from an Institution in 1954. The continued relevance of her political thinking is reflected in...

During her first visit to the USA, ES met Charlie Chaplin , Greta Garbo , and Marianne Moore . A press party at the Gotham Book Mart in New York was attended by ES ...

HA 's journalistic and editorial work meant that she met almost everyone who belonged to the intellectual scene in New York, as well as those just passing through, like T. S. Eliot . Those who...

Randall Jarrell 's article in the New York Times about CS 's The Man Who Loved Children (followed in August by another article, in New Republic, by Elizabeth Hardwick ) began to turn Stead's reputation around.

This was, says Hazel Rowley , one of those highly original novels that do not take off at first.Whatever the artistic consequences of its national transposition of setting, some US critics found the...

In 1963 Eldon Branda produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced.Stanley Burnshaw fought to persuade Holt, Rinehart and Winston to re-issue the work, but again no British publisher...

Early reviews of North & South were not enthusiastic, until the tide was turned following warm praise by Marianne Moore , Randall Jarrell , and then Robert Lowell , who was dismissive of some...

At the insistence of its first publisher, the US Simon and Schuster , CS agreed to transpose her Australian novel to an American setting. This entailed shifting the period from the 1910s to the 1930s...

Miranda Seymour (who has published a life of Graves and a novel based on an incident in his life and Riding's) does not believe this story of indebtedness, and nor does Riding's biographer Friedmann...

Dark times is a phrase from Brecht . It is almost synonymous here with the twentieth century, though HA has a piece on Lessing , who lived two centuries earlier. She uses men to signify...