OM
's early friends included Celia Jordan
. She met Stevie Smith
in 1937, after each had a novel come out from the same publisher within months of each other. A close friendship developed which...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Taylor
Critical responses were again violently mixed. British Book News reported that this gentle and rather melancholy narrative uses the kaleidoscopic technique Miss Taylor has used before.
British Book News. British Council.
(1953): 262
Walter Allen
in the New Statesman wondered...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Taylor
With this novel reviews of ET
's work began to sound more and more patronising. The Times Literary Supplement likened her settings to the safe world of Jan Struther
's Mrs Miniver (a comparison already...
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
but they were savaged by Walter Allen
, who used a damaging comparison with Jan Struther
's...
Literary responses
Pamela Hansford Johnson
This novel marked a step forward in the public valuation of PHJ
. Walter Allen
called it one of the best novels of our time.
Ten years after DR
's death, a second and this time complete four-volume omnibus set of her Pilgrimage was published, including its thirteenth and final segment, March Moonlight, with an introduction by Walter Allen
.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
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Reception
Elizabeth Taylor
Reviewers were divided in their responses to Blaming, as they had been to some of ET
's earlier novels.
Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne, 1985.
108
Her old nemesis Walter Allen
is said to have blocked its choice for the...
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Texts
Richardson, Dorothy, and Walter Allen. Pilgrimage. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1967, 4 vols.
Lewis, Wyndham. The Roaring Queen. Editor Allen, Walter, Secker and Warburg, 1973.