Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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),
Hadley, Tessa. “He wants me no more”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 2, pp. 29-30.
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though she also wrote poetry, drama, memoirs, and political and social commentary.
VW
had been ill while she was writing this book and was acutely anxious about its quality: she gave the manuscript to Leonard
to read with the brief of pronouncing whether or not it was...
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...
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Agatha Christie
AC
, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, received the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award (1954), the degree of DLitt from the University of Exeter
(1961), and a letter addressed simply...
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Olivia Manning
Amid a chorus of praise for this novel, Pamela Hansford Johnson
's statement that it was among the ten best novels written by women in the past twenty-five years attracted ridicule for its mathematical approach...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society
Literary responses
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Pamela Hansford Johnson
thought this both the most attractive and one of the finest of ICB
's books, verging on the lyrical.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
Johnson, Important 193, 195
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.
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They did, however, praise the book, especially in the case of reviewers who were also novelists, like Elizabeth Bowen
, Pamela Hansford Johnson
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...
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Noel Streatfeild
Pamela Hansford Johnson
called this at its first appearance NS
's best book to date.
Julia Strachey
and Pamela Hansford Johnson
both slammed A Wreath of Roses.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
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ET
herself felt that it expanded her range, but that the result was not successful: that she had produced a cold...
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...
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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.
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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.
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Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson
not only encouraged her in the writing of this book, but also...
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),...
Timeline
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Texts
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. This Bed Thy Centre. Chapman and Hall; Harcourt Brace, 1935.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Too Dear for my Possessing. Collins; Carrick and Evans, 1940.
