Galsworthy, John, and Gladys Henrietta Schütze. “Foreword”. Mrs. Fischer’s War, p. 7.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Galsworthy
's welcoming preface concludes: Human and interesting from page to page; broad, just and tolerant; above all, warm and breathing, it makes you think. Yes, it makes you think. Galsworthy, John, and Gladys Henrietta Schütze. “Foreword”. Mrs. Fischer’s War, p. 7. 7 |
Literary responses | Noel Streatfeild | NS
's first fan letter came from John Galsworthy
, to say the book was a tremendously good first novel and so amusing. Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head. 22 |
Literary responses | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Reviewers called this apparently unreadable, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4045 (10 October 1980): 1142 Hill, Susan, and Flora Macdonald Mayor. The Third Miss Symons, Virago, p. n.p. prelims |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's... |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | PEN
stood for Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists. Forty-five writers and journalists attended the dinner: they all became PEN's first members. John Galsworthy
served as president until 1933. |
politics | Violet Hunt | During the summer and autumn of 1921, VH
helped her friend and colleague C. A. Sappho Dawson Scott
with the establishment of the P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), originally a writers' association designed to... |
politics | May Sinclair | It was established to encourage friendship and good-will among authors; John Galsworthy
was elected as its first president. |
Reception | Arnold Bennett | This novel received immediate praise in the press, though sales of the small print-run took a long time to pick up. Enthusiastic reviewers included such different writers as Walter de la Mare
(in the Times... |
Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | Cyril Connolly
expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 78 |
Reception | Storm Jameson | Charles Evans at Heinemann
sent The Happy Highways to John Galsworthy
, who read it with appreciation. Galsworthy observed by letter that [t]he authoress has done what none of the torrential novelists of the last... |
Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf, Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Editors DeSalvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, William Morrow. 47 |
Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750. 750 |
Textual Production | Penelope Mortimer | PM
also wrote for the cinema. She adapted Galsworthy
's The Apple Tree as a screenplay for Warner Brothers
, but it was decades before the film was made. In June 1972, at the request... |
Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | In her autobiography she explained the genesis of this book. Robert Hale
, then manager of Jarrolds
, said he was looking for a war book that was not full of mud, blood and obscenity... |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | This magazine aimed to reach the cultured public, and bring before it in a convincing and moderate form, the case for the Enfranchisement of Women. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 91-2 |
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