Davies, Linda. Mary Webb Country. Palmers Press, 1990.
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Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | RM
also regularly attended the gatherings of the Friday Hampstead Circle
, presided over by Dorothy
and Reeve Brooke
and later by Sylvia
and Robert Lynd
. These gatherings were attended by RM
's friends... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Webb | In London, despite the shyness that made literary life difficult for her, MW
became friends with May Sinclair
, Robert
and Sylvia Lynd
, Rebecca West
, novelist and critic Edwin Pugh
, and Lady Cynthia Asquith |
Literary responses | Mary Webb | Robert Lynd
noted with admiration this novel's tempestuous energy. Davies, Linda. Mary Webb Country. Palmers Press, 1990. 29 |
Literary responses | Mary Webb | This exemplifies the double-edged nature of MW
's reputation. On the one hand she has become almost synonymous in the public mind with the genre she made famous: the romantic, earthy, rural novel. Her early... |
Literary responses | Romer Wilson | In her diary on 3 May 1921, Virginia Woolf
, who had not yet read the novel, accurately predicted that it would win the Hawthornden Prize. Six days later, she recorded her disappointment in it:... |
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