Hadley, Tessa. “He wants me no more”. London Review of Books, No. 2, pp. 29 -30.
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Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Standard Name: Johnson, Pamela Hansford
Birth Name: Pamela Hansford Johnson
Pseudonym: Nap Lombard
Married Name: Pamela Hansford Snow
Titled: Baroness Snow
PHJ
had a long and prolific writing career, from before the second world war until late twentieth century. She is remembered primarily as a novelist (with twenty-seven titles),
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dylan Thomas | His first serious love-affair was with Pamela Hansford Johnson
, like him an aspiring writer. They corresponded for several months before they met and were, as they had expected to be, mutually attracted. They fell... |
| Friends, Associates | Susan Hill | While studying at King's CollegeSH
, an aspiring writer, wrote to novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson
and her writer husband C. P. Snow
for advice on the profession. The couple answered her letters and even... |
| Friends, Associates | Olivia Manning | OM
's friends included a number of fellow-writers: William Gerhardi
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she had first met before the war, at a party given by Rose Macaulay
, and whose work she deeply admired),... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | In a private joke, MS
filled Dougal's notes for his ghosted autobiography with clichés like thrilled to his touch,living a lie, etc., every one of which she had found in the published writings of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Hill | I would come home, do my homework, and then write my novel in what little time was left. Sanderson, Caroline. “Interview, Susan Hill”. Mslexia, No. 48, pp. 13 -15. 14 |
| Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Of this novel ICB
wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 190 |
| Literary responses | Muriel Spark | The London theatre critics were scathing, with only two exceptions (though one of these, Harold Hobson
, carried a lot of weight). Pamela Hansford Johnson
trounced the play on the BBC
's radio programme The... |
| Literary responses | Noel Streatfeild | Pamela Hansford Johnson
called this at its first appearance NS
's best book to date. Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994. 64 Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994. 66 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Julia Strachey
and Pamela Hansford Johnson
both slammed A Wreath of Roses. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 214-15 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Susan Hill | This book was widely praised. Pamela Hansford Johnson
in the Daily Telegraph made it her book selection of the year. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 14 |
| Literary responses | Aldous Huxley | This text, wrote novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson
, opened miraculous doors for her and a whole group of her literary-minded young friends. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974. 82 |
| Literary responses | F. Tennyson Jesse | The New Yorker described the letters as having vigour, clarity, humour and elegance, and found FTJ
and her husband a tough pair of gentle writers. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 213 |
| Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | |
| Literary responses | Joanna Cannan | These books were praised by a whole roster of other women novelists: Elizabeth Bowen
, Phyllis Bentley
, and Pamela Hansford Johnson
. Bowen observed of the first that there was much more to this... |
Timeline
1 April 1939
General Franco
, Nationalist victor in the Spanish Civil War, declared the conflict over. Republican soldiers had been fleeing over the border to France for some time, and Madrid had fallen on 28 March.
22 June 1941
Hitler
's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...
September 1949
PEN International
held a conference in Venice. Delegates included W. H. Auden
, C. P. Snow
, Pamela Hansford Johnson
, and Cecily Mackworth
.
27 April 1966
Ian Brady
and Myra Hindley
went on trial at Chester for the sexual assault and murder of five girls and boys aged between ten and seventeen; they were sentenced to life imprisonment.