Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa
, Clive Bell
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
The press issued this little book on the same day as Eliot
's Poems and John Middleton Murry
's The Critic in Judgment.
Textual Production
Helen Waddell
HW
provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable
reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke
, Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth von Arnim
In a letter to Dorothy Brett
, Mansfield wrote: The point about [Elizabeth] is that one loves her and is proud of her. Oh, that's so important! To be proud of the person one loves...
Literary responses
Elizabeth von Arnim
This novel elicited a wide range of responses from reviewers. John Middleton Murry
consoled EA
when she received harsh criticism in the Times Literary Supplement. He told her there was no way to protect...
Publishing
Elizabeth Taylor
ET
for the first time had a short story actually in print: Better Not, published by John Middleton Murry
in the Adelphi.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
124
Friends, Associates
Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing...
Literary responses
Dorothy Richardson
The first reviewer, in the Sunday Observer, found DR
's narrative strategy extraordinary, but remarkably clear. He noted that her leaving the reader without explanations or apologies was not in the least troubling or...
She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry
, who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield
had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
41-2, 90, 212
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)
Reception
Marcel Proust
Anticipating protest from critics, MP
defended his work and its increasingly homosexual aspects on the grounds that he had to follow his characters where their serious defects or vices lead.
Carter, William C. Marcel Proust: A Life. Yale University Press.
734
Remarkably, this volume provoked...
Publishing
Iris Murdoch
While working exceptionally hard in a Treasury
office during the war, when all food had to be queued for, she still found energy to write fiction and poems as well as letters.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
141-2
At this...
Friends, Associates
Susan Miles
During her years at Bloomsbury, UR met the many distinguished literary figures who were either parishioners or readers at fund-raising events, like T. S. Eliot
, John Middleton Murry
, Edith Sitwell
, Wilfrid Meynell
Friends, Associates
Viola Meynell
VM
met Lawrence
through Ivy Low
. Enthusiastic about his writing, she offered to lend him her cottage and to do his typing. During his stay on the Meynells' property, Lawrence introduced Viola to Ottoline Morrell
Timeline
From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...
Building item
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
July 1955: The Adelphi, which was launched in June 1923...
Writing climate item
July 1955
The Adelphi, which was launched in June 1923 with John Middleton Murry
as editor, issued its final number.
Texts
Murry, John Middleton, and Anne Finch. “Introduction”. Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchilsea 1661-1720, Jonathan Cape, 1928, pp. 3-20.
Mansfield, Katherine. Journal of Katherine Mansfield. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1927.
Mansfield, Katherine. Novels & Novelists. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Beacon Press, 1930.
Mansfield, Katherine. Poems. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1923.
Mansfield, Katherine. Something Childish and Other Stories. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable, 1924, http://U of A HSS.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1923.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1928.