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Valerie Grove
Standard Name: Grove, Valerie
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Jan Struther | |
Publishing | Jan Struther | She had been approached by fourteen different publishing firms asking to add a volume of her Mrs Miniver pieces to their list. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 97 Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 111 |
politics | Dodie Smith | |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | Although it brought in full houses for its brief run, it was not a success with critics—the New Yorker, for instance, remarked that its British clichés [are] so much more irritating than our own... |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | DS
's biographer, Valerie Grove
, finds this novel curiously immature; with an amateurish lack of discrimination about conversational banalities. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 268 |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | DS
was concerned that critics would think that she had not treated homosexuality seriously enough, and in this Valerie Grove
believes she was right: Since Dodie had read so much about homosexual life, and had... |
Dedications | Margaret Forster | She dedicated it to Valerie Grove
, another hard-working lass from the North-East, and another author and biographer. Forster, Margaret. Lady’s Maid. Chatto and Windus. prelims |
Timeline
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Texts
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
Grove, Valerie. “Wireless”. The Oldie, p. 48.