Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Pearl S. Buck | PSB
married as her second husband her publisher, Richard Walsh
, in Reno, on the same day that they had both, within the hour, secured their respective divorces. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010. 221 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pearl S. Buck | PSB
's second husband, Richard Walsh
, suffered a serious stroke. For a while he seemed to recover a little, but then entered an unstoppable physical and mental decline, which continued until his death in 1960. Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996. 332 Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010. 243-4 |
Friends, Associates | Pearl S. Buck | In 1934 PSB
was able to introduce Richard Walsh
to the writers Lin Yutang
and Edgar
and Helen Foster Snow
. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010. 216 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Pearl S. Buck | She wrote in longhand every morning, rapidly, never revising. Her secretary then typed her manuscripts, and finally Richard Walsh
revised and edited the novels, while Buck's agent David Lloyd
revised and edited the stories. Between... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Pearl S. Buck | Buck wrote this novel while struggling to come to terms with Richard Walsh
's disabling stroke. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010. 246 |
Publishing | Pearl S. Buck | The germ of this novel was PSB
's long story A Chinese Woman Speaks, to which she then added a sequel before revising the whole. The book was accepted by Richard Walsh
of the... |
Textual Features | Pearl S. Buck | It is set in Kansas, Richard Walsh
's home state, and traces the experience of Jonathan Goodliffe, who arrives in the USA from England with his parents at the age of fifteen. He is... |
Textual Production | Pearl S. Buck | PSB
published a memoir, A Bridge for Passing, which deals with her recent experience coming to terms with the death of her husband, Richard Walsh
, while she was in Japan for the making... |
Textual Production | Pearl S. Buck | Written at white-hot speed during the months immediately following on her mother's death in October 1921, The Exile lay hidden in a closet, unread by even a single friend of the author, for nearly fifteen... |
Travel | Pearl S. Buck | The Bucks left the USA in July 1933 to head for China with a party of friends and colleagues, via months in Europe of work for him and sight-seeing for her. They landed in Shanghai... |
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