qtd. in
Lassner, Phyllis. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne, 1991.
173
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Mary Renault | Lesbianism had been the subject of novels in the 1920s and 30s. Virginia Woolf
's Mrs. Dalloway and Elizabeth Bowen
's The Hotel had both been criticised (the latter severely) for sympathetic treatments of emotional... |
Literary responses | Henry Handel Richardson | Where Michael Ackland
has recently seen fantasy, omission, and transformation (with valuable light shed on HHR
's attitudes and imaginative life), Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 2 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | AR
published a biography of her own old headmistress: Olive Willis
and Downe House
, An Adventure in Education, with a foreword by Elizabeth Bowen
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 80: 358 Ridler, Anne. Olive Willis and Downe House. John Murray, 1967. 1-5 |
Education | Anne Ridler | Downe House had been founded at Charles Darwin
's old home by Olive Willis
, a remarkable woman who was still headmistress, who exercised an important influence on AR
, and whose biography Ridler later... |
Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | The letters VSW
exchanged with her husband were absolutely crucial to the creation and the sustenance of their relationship: they expressed such closeness by letter that it almost took the place of sexual or literal... |
Anthologization | Muriel Spark | This came at a time when she was submitting her work (almost entirely poetry) in large quantity and having it rejected. She submitted this story as Aquarius: real names were not revealed until the... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
published her ninth novel, The Soul of Kindness. She dedicated it to Elizabeth Bowen
, using the latter's married name of Elizabeth Cameron to indicate that this was a personal, not only a literary, relationship. Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne, 1985. 81n3 Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 350 |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Taylor | Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 44 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | At Mrs. Lippincote's set the tone for reception of ET
by attracting very mixed reviews. She treasured praise from L. P. Hartley
, Richard Church
(who was reminded of Woolf
's Mrs Dalloway), and... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Like ET
's first book, this was praised by distinguished but not unanimous voices: Elizabeth Bowen
found an exciting distinction about every page, and Rosamond Lehmann
noted the stripped, piercing feminine wit and called ET |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Reviews of A Game of Hide and Seek included high praise from Marghanita Laski
and Elizabeth Bowen
(some consolation to ET
for her problems with her US publisher), but also carping which she found deeply... |
Reception | Elizabeth Taylor | Brigid Brophy
wrote that she valued very highly indeed the considered and considerable despair at the heart of this novel. qtd. in Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne, 1985. 85 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
felt strongly about the advantages of men over women as writers, especially over mothers. I don't think anything enrages me so much as seeing in famous men's autobiographies photographs of their studies, libraries, quiet... |
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