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Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce
, focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in... |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | D. H. Lawrence
blamed LCA
's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 127 |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Robin Hone
, reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence |
Literary responses | Constance Garnett | Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence
, a friend of her husband
's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,... |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Edward Garnett
, the reader for Cape
, thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence
's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this... |
Literary responses | Nell Dunn | According to Margaret Drabble
, this book was, like its predecessor, another succès de scandale. It was also one of the first post-Chatterley books . . . to treat women's sexuality as though it were... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Brett | Lawrence
, to whom she sent a copy, thought the experiences described were unremarkable. Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts. 197 |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS
said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 85 |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | Again the Times Literary Supplement review was by R. D. Charques
, though again he found nothing good to say. He repeated most of his usual points: this was a wholly disappointing performance from an... |
Literary responses | Catherine Carswell | The Camomile did not garner the attention CC
's first novel received. Reviews were various, even contradictory, some asserting that it was better than Open the Door! and some that it was not so good... |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | After its appearance in England this book was reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement by Anthony Samuel Curtis
, together with a recent reprint of For Love Alone. Curtis judged that two novels shared... |
Literary responses | Mary Butts | The first edition of Ashe of Rings was not extensively reviewed. Although an unimpressed reviewer for the Liverpool Courier characterised it as another bad case of Futurism (like the writing of James Joyce
and Dorothy Richardson |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Orlando set a new level in VW
's public reputation. The usual polarization of reviews was represented by J. C. Squire
in The Observer calling it a very pleasant trifle that would entertain the drawing-rooms... |
Literary responses | Eleanor Farjeon | D. H. Lawrence
thought her a real poet, but criticised her for refusing to fight things out to their last issue. . . . [Y]ou never burn yours to the last fire. . .... |
Literary responses | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Bertrand Russell
exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press. 312 Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. |
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