Smith, Robert Sidney. “’Always Sincere, Not Always Serious’: Robert Liddell and Barbara Pym”. Twentieth Century Literature, No. 4.
Robert Liddell
Standard Name: Liddell, Robert
Connections
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Cultural formation | Barbara Pym | As for marriage, BP
's involvements with men as a student must have been to some extent influenced by social pressure to marry. She felt badly let down when Henry Harvey
decided to wed another... |
Dedications | Barbara Pym | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Pym | Rupert Gleadow
cared about BP
a great deal, but their romance was an experience which she chose to downplay in her memory and writing. Her long, unsuccessful pursuit of Henry Harvey
, who both attracted... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Taylor | Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
met the young novelist Robert Liddell
, who was writing the first extended critical treatment of her. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 152 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | Authors BP
, Mary Renault
, and Elizabeth Taylor
attended a party in Athens given by Pym's longtime friend the novelist and critic Robert Liddell
. Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Holt, Hazel and Hilary PymEditors , Macmillan, 1984. 227 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Ivy Compton-Burnett
wrote to her friend ET
of her great and lasting pleasure in this novel. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 270 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | British Book News judged ET
to be at the top of her form in these stories, British Book News. British Council. (1959): 215 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Liddell
responded warmly to these accounts, whose detail, he felt, was really literature. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 51 Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 34 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | BP
's father wrote to her on 3 May 1950 commending this novel, which he had not expected to enjoy since he preferred mysteries. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992. 157n12 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Reviewers, including Elaine Feinstein
and Penelope Fitzgerald
, Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 213 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Her friend Robert Liddell
responded with violent disapproval to the posthumous publication of works which BP
had without final revision. He called it scraping the meat off Barbara's bones. Smith, Robert Sidney. “’Always Sincere, Not Always Serious’: Robert Liddell and Barbara Pym”. Twentieth Century Literature, No. 4. |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | This became BP
's most widely-reviewed text, and received a mixed reception. Robert Liddell
was again outraged, calling this a dreadful book which had only been made possible by the betrayal of Pym's friends in... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | At Mrs. Lippincote's set the tone for reception of ET
by attracting very mixed reviews. She treasured praise from L. P. Hartley
, Richard Church
(who was reminded of Woolf
's Mrs Dalloway), and... |
Literary responses | 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... |
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