Fairbairns, Zoë. Closing. Methuen, 1987.
prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Maureen Duffy | MD
's story The Last Priestess appeared in God. An Anthology of Fiction (edited by Stephen Hayward
and Sarah Lefanu
, 1992). |
Anthologization | Zoë Fairbairns | Since then ZF
has published stories in such places as Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, the Women's Press
, 1985, edited by Jen Green
and Sarah Lefanu
. Fairbairns, Zoë. Closing. Methuen, 1987. prelims |
Anthologization | James Tiptree Jr. | Raccoona's final story, Morality Meat (published in Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, edited by Jen Green
and Sarah Lefanu
, 1985), imagines a horrific world in which abortion is outlawed and... |
Anthologization | Michèle Roberts | Roberts re-issued her Anger, together with another story she called God's House, in a volume also titled God's House, 1996. (This second story had appeared in a different Serpent's Tail
anthology, God... |
Anthologization | Michèle Roberts | Another contributed piece is MR
's Lists in Obsession, a volume of short stories on this topic, edited by Sarah Lefanu
and Stephen Hayward
, 1995. Her story (reprinted in revised form in Playing... |
Anthologization | Judith Kazantzis | JK
's God, An Untitled Story appeared in God: an Anthology of Fiction, edited by Stephen Hayward
and Sarah Lefanu
in 1992. Other contributors included Michèle Roberts
, Maureen Duffy
, and Bapsi Sidhwa
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Macaulay | Biographer Sarah Lefanu
writes that she had been his best child, while he had been a model for her beliefs, her aspirations and her conduct. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003. 111-12 |
Friends, Associates | Michèle Roberts | MR
's memoir, Paper Houses, features a huge roster of close friends warmly evoked, some of them long-term commitments and others belonging to some particular period of her life. They include many women who... |
Health | Rose Macaulay | According to biographers, she also suffered a nervous breakdown at this time. Sarah Lefanu
reckons that she had several breakdowns during her life: after the death of her brother Aulay, and perhaps also at the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Macaulay | Lefanu
suggests that Tudor's obsession with the idea of honey for tea, in his nostalgia for childhood as sanctuary from his present painful life, was a source in the evolution of Rupert Brooke
's famous... |
Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | Sarah Lefanu
finds it feeble and mannered compared with RM
's recent titles. She gives a similarly low rating to Going Abroad, 1934, and I Would Be Private, 1937. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003. 183, 212 |
Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | RM
later wrote, it's really a book for those who have travelled to the same place, or are about to. Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana, 1968. 70 qtd. in Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003. 243 |
Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | The Times obituary noted her novels' continued power to enchant, but stressed particularly her personal appeal. Few writers this century inspired so quick and so lasting an affection among people of every kind. Macaulay, Rose. The Towers of Trebizond. Collins, 1956. dustjacket |
Publishing | Rose Macaulay | RM
's letters to friends are full of life and fun. Sarah Lefanu
's biography reproduces on its end-papers one to a child which is full of pictograms: My dear Mary has a picture of... |
Textual Features | Rose Macaulay | This is her sole historical novel and the only one to reflect her long-standing interest in the seventeenth century. Set between October 1640 and May 1641, the period of the Long Parliament, the novel portrays... |