“Notice: Extraordinary Women: Theme and Variations”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1388, 6 Sept. 1928, p. 633.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rebecca West | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Dickens | She had one further piece of good fortune in meeting with Compton Mackenzie
(whose grandfather had been friends with Charles Dickens), who read her book in proof, tidied up a few loose utterances, and did... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Radclyffe Hall | Released weeks after RH
's The Well of Loneliness, Compton Mackenzie
's novel Extraoradinary Women: Theme and Variations, viewed lesbianism with an amused but ultimately disapproving eye. “Notice: Extraordinary Women: Theme and Variations”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1388, 6 Sept. 1928, p. 633. 633 |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | MB
was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain
, Walter de la Mare
, Compton Mackenzie
, and Hugh Walpole
, who... |
Literary responses | Margiad Evans | Favourable newspaper reviews came from Compton Mackenzie
and James Agate
. The Daily Mail review pleased ME
particularly by reproducing her frontispiece (though they did not know it to be hers). Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Margiad Evans. Seren, 1998. 43 |
Literary responses | Angela Thirkell | The family of Lady Wemyss were not amused by her transparent portrayal. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977. 105 |
Literary responses | Viola Meynell | To author Compton Mackenzie
, this seemed a masterpiece of characterization and delicate humour, of effortless scene-painting and economy of line. qtd. in MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 120 |
politics | Mary Renault | MR
appreciated Compton Mackenzie
's Extraordinary Women, which dealt openly with lesbians and evaded the censor because it treated lesbianism as comic. She referred to it in a review as a masterpiece of gentle... |
Reception | Antonia White | AW
had used Sylvaine's name for a fictional actress flourishing some years before the real June Sylvaine was born. Her publisher, Eyre and Spottiswoode
, played safe by withdrawing copies of the book. The case... |
Textual Features | Mary Renault | Lesbianism had been the subject of novels in the 1920s and 30s. Virginia Woolf
's Mrs. Dalloway and Elizabeth Bowen
's The Hotel had both been criticised (the latter severely) for sympathetic treatments of emotional... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher
, H. D.
, Sylvia Beach
, Amy Catherine (Jane) |