Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...
Anthologization
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Fifth of November was chosen by Giles Gordon
for Modern Short Stories 2 1940-1980, 1982.
Anthologization
Elizabeth Taylor
The title story had been turned down by The New Yorker (which in fact accepted only two of the eleven stories in this volume) and by British periodicals.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
351-2
The Fly-Paper from this volume was...
Textual Features
Ann Quin
Set in an unnamed town, which is clearly Brighton, the novel is, as Giles Gordon
describes it, a Graham Greene
thriller as if reworked by a somewhat romantic Burroughs
.
Gordon, Giles, and Ann Quin. “Introduction”. Berg, 1st Dalkey Archive edition, Dalkey Archive, p. vii - xiv.
ix
The first sentence—the...
Literary responses
Ann Quin
Berg earned AQ
two major awards: the Harkness Fellowship, given to the most promising Commonwealth artist under thirty years, and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
231
Giles Gordon
Anthologization
Ann Quin
AQ
published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
231
Sewell, Brocard, and Colin Wilson. Like Black Swans: Some People and Themes. Tabb House.
186
In the mid-sixties she told her publisher,...
Literary responses
Louise Page
LP
was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it.
Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen.
xii
Reviewers were on the whole less impressed than they had previously been by Page...
Literary responses
Penelope Mortimer
The adjectives chosen for these twelve stories by Giles Gordon
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are luminous, incisive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
At the time of publication they were praised in the Times and the Times...
Textual Features
Penelope Mortimer
This takes the story of her life until her twenty-first birthday, treating herself (says critic Giles Gordon
) rather severely.
Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
26
Literary responses
Penelope Mortimer
Reviews were mixed. The Times called the book catty as well as too clever . . . by half, while the New York Times Book Review called it awkward and inflated while also accusing it...
Publishing
Penelope Mortimer
Giles Gordon
, who was at one time her literary agent, later wrote that she was impossible about her work. Pay her a compliment—and she would inevitably take it as an insult.
Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
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Anthologization
Mary Lavin
Sarah from this volume (dated 1943) was reprinted in Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980, 1982, edited by Giles Gordon
.
Friends, Associates
Bessie Head
The publication of her first book added to the list of her epistolary friends: Giles Gordon
, her editor at Gollancz, Tom Carvlin
of the Chicago Tribune, and London journalist Paddy Kitchen
(and...
Friends, Associates
Bessie Head
Her friendships with Giles Gordon
and Paddy Kitchen
each crashed in flames for reasons connected with BH
's writing (publishing negotiations or opinions expressed), but each was joyfully restored in 1980-1.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
281-2, 285-6
She had...
Textual Features
Bessie Head
Cadmore is a teacher with brilliant credentials, and a visual artist whose drawings give dignity and value to ordinary life in the remote village of Dilepe and its oppressed and victimized people. She is also...
Timeline
1965: Giles Gordon did a series of interviews for...
Women writers item
1965
Giles Gordon
did a series of interviews for The Scotsman with female authors: a species of writer that at the time wasn't particularly recognised, although it certainly had been in the previous century.
Texts
Duffy, Maureen. “A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square”. Factions, edited by Giles Gordon and Alex Hamilton, Michael Joseph, 1974, pp. 169-04.
Gordon, Giles, editor. Beyond the Words. Hutchinson, 1975.
Gordon, Giles, and Ann Quin. “Introduction”. Berg, 1st Dalkey Archive edition, Dalkey Archive, 2001, p. vii - xiv.
Gordon, Giles, editor. Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980. J. M. Dent, 1982.
Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
Gordon, Giles. “Reading Ann Quin’s Berg”. Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture.