qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Caroline Blackwood | Anna Haycraft
(Alice Thomas Ellis) arrived at the deathbed with Lourdes holy water from which, Blackwood observed with true gallows humour, I might have caught my death. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Dedications | Beryl Bainbridge | The manuscript of this book had been firmly dismissed, with negative comment on the imagery, diction, and spelling, in 1964 by BB
's then agent. King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 259 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
met Austin Davies
, known as Ossie, in late 1950, when he was an art student drafted in to paint scenery for the Liverpool Repertory Company
. King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 103 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Beryl Bainbridge | After BB
's affair with Clive de Pass
ended, she allowed herself to become emotionally entangled with Colin Haycraft
, her publisher at Duckworth. King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 391 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Blackwood | CB
's first marriage was a period of intense socializing. She knew virtually everyone in bohemian as well as in fashionable London circles. The painter Francis Bacon
, a close friend of her husband's, became... |
Friends, Associates | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
re-met Anna Haycraft
by chance (some of their children were friends). Colin Haycraft
was reputedly a misogynist who believed that non-fiction should be written by men and fiction by women, and on one occasion... |
Friends, Associates | Beryl Bainbridge | Her friendship with Anna Haycraft
(always rather rocky because it co-existed with a love-triangle) came to an end in 2001 when Bainbridge talked in an interview about the Haycrafts' marriage. King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 459 |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. M. Delafield | Recent critic Cynthia Zarin
argues that through the Diary of a Provincial Lady books, EMDspawned a genre that would later be imitated by writers such as Shirley Jackson
, publishing in the 1950s, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beryl Bainbridge | The married couple Colin Haycraft
and Alice Thomas Ellis
(herself a writer) both worked at Gerald Duckworth
publishers, and met BB
while she was working there as a clerk. They taught her to write properly... |
Literary responses | Anita Brookner | Among other evaluations, Olga Kenyon
admired AB
's capacity to represent the interiority and social frustrations of gifted undervalued women: qtd. in Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan, 1992. 2 |
Occupation | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
began working as a part-time clerk for the publishing firm Gerald Duckworth
, where Colin Haycraft
and his wife Anna (the writer Alice Thomas Ellis
) provided invaluable advice for her writing career. Anna... |
Publishing | Beryl Bainbridge | This was the first book she had published since the death of Colin Haycraft
and after a determined attempt had been made to lure her away from Duckworth
to |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | Hodder and Stoughton
turned it down, then Chapman and Hall
, then Chatto and Windus
, all with words of encouragement which BB
felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | The title character was said to be based on BB
's lover Alan Sharp
. Clapp, Susannah. “The Buffalo in the Hall”. London Review of Books, Vol. 39 , No. 1, 25 Jan. 2017, pp. 9-10. 9 |
Textual Production | Caroline Blackwood | CB
collaborated with Anna Haycraft
(Alice Thomas Ellis, who here, however, used her actual name) on a cookery book ironically entitled Darling, You Shouldn't Have Gone to So Much Trouble. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1982 Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |