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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
Occupation | John Donne | During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a... |
Publishing | Anthony Trollope | Angela Thirkell
(an avowed disciple of Trollope) wrote an introduction for an edition of this novel in 1958; so did Pamela Hansford Johnson
for the Norton
edition four years later. A number of women writers... |
Publishing | Barbara Pym | She wrote the first draft, she said later, over breakfast in bed in her flat in 1973-4, a period of serious health problems—first breast cancer and then a stroke—and of her decision to retire from... |
Reception | Ivy Compton-Burnett | During the early part of ICB
's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer
was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Whipple | DW
's first story written at and about Barton Seagrave, the place to which she and her husband retired, was about a pretty girl she had watched from her window coping lightly with marriage... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jennings | She also joined with fellow-writers in letters to the Times on matters of public concern. She joined with forty well-known names (including Pamela Hansford Johnson
) on 25 September 1969 to defend keeping up the... |
Textual Production | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Contributors included Nancy Cunard
, Winifred Holtby
, Storm Jameson
, Pamela Hansford Johnson
, Naomi Mitchison
, Sylvia Townsend Warner
, W. H. Auden
, John Lehmann
, and John Strachey
. |
Textual Production | Olivia Manning | New Stories also published Pamela Hansford Johnson
, Dylan Thomas
, and Stephen Spender
. OM
's title, which is challenging in a way that was characteristic for this stage of her career, comes from... |
Textual Production | Barbara Pym | In many ways this novel reflects BP
's undergraduate years at Oxford
, featuring characters and episodes based partly on herself, her sister, and her friends or acquaintances. Among these, Henry Harvey
and the future... |
Textual Production | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The manuscript had been due in August 1964. At that time she told Gollancz then that it was not ready, but in a lamentable state. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 289 |
Textual Production | Mary Stewart | MS
was bored by modern movements like the anti-novel, the sicks and the beats, but felt there was a place for them: they're trying things out, keeping literature alive and moving. Stewart, Mary. “Mary Stewart”. Counterpoint, edited by Roy Newquist, George Allen & Unwin , 1965, pp. 561 -71. 561 |
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