SB
began reviewing for the New York Review of Books by 1963, and covered a wide range of genres: literary history (a book on Oscar Wilde
), fiction (Graham Greene
), travel writing (...
Textual Production
Sybille Bedford
SB
told the travel-writer Bruce Chatwin
(who wrote an introduction for it) that this light and poetic book was (of course) a novel as well as a piece of travel writing.
Petro, Pamela. “A traveler’s tales”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 10-11, p. 35.
35
She...
Literary responses
Sybille Bedford
Reviewer Pamela Petro
called this book a masterpiece of minute observation and compressed geography.
Petro, Pamela. “A traveler’s tales”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 10-11, p. 35.
35
The cookery writer Elizabeth David
paid it the compliment of citation in her French Provincial Cooking, 1960.