Borne Back Daily.
15 February 2011
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | It was, however, the second son, Maurice
, who proved their father's favourite, and his status affected his treatment of his younger sisters. Sylvia writes of him as a plump little boy with rosy cheeks... |
Friends, Associates | Mary McCarthy | MMC
's long-term friendships included those with Edmund Wilson
(even after their divorce) and Hannah Arendt
. She attracted notoriety for her falling-out with Lillian Hellman
, a leading playwright who began to publish memoirs... |
Textual Production | Christina Stead | She had been working on this novel, originally titled Mrs Trollope and Madame Blaise, in the early 1950s. Her New York agent, Helen Strauss
, was pessimistic from the first about placing it, and... |