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Friends, Associates | Marianne Moore | She became a celebrity, and became acquainted with other celebrities, like Norman Mailer
, James Baldwin
, and Harry Belafonte
. Williams, Mary-Kay. “What a Mother”. London Review of Books, Vol. 37 , No. 23, p. 19021. 21 |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | It was a disappointment to OM
when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis
, was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning? Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 2 |
Literary responses | Mary McCarthy | It was controversial as well as popular. Its frank descriptions of sex, contraception and breast-feeding caused such a scandal that the novel was banned in Australia as an offence to public morals. Norman Mailer
,... |
politics | Rebecca West | Although she was against censorship, RW
objected to literature with no redeeming moral value. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 304 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Diana Athill | Part one is the story of the publishing houses that DA
worked with. She begins by explaining that business figures (which someone had mentioned as the key to an interesting book about publishing) would not... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Germaine Greer | The title alludes to the key study by Sandra M. Gilbert
, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, 1979. The introduction pays tribute to the women Greer... |
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