Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Naomi Royde-Smith
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Standard Name: Royde-Smith, Naomi
Birth Name: Naomi Gwladys Holroyd Smith
Self-constructed Name: Naomi Royde-Smith
Indexed Name: N. G. Royde-Smith
Indexed Name: Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith
Married Name: Naomi Gwladys Milton
NRS
'a most important literary work included serving as midwife to the writings of others. She also published prodigiously, from early in the twentieth century: nearly forty novels, besides short stories, anthologies and compilations, biographies, reviews and criticism, four plays, and books about railways and other forms of transport.
During her second marriage MB
took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic
. Naomi Royde-Smith
(herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...
Dedications
Rose Macaulay
RM
published her second and final collection of poetry, Three Days, dedicated to Naomi Royde-Smith
; many of the poems have war and post-war themes.
Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969.
54, 60
Family and Intimate relationships
Hélène Barcynska
In her first book of autobiography, HB
always calls Evans the man. Naomi Royde-Smith
thought him the most savage satirist since Swift
. HB
at once quarrelled with Leslie about him. The day after...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Bowen
Through her old headmistress, EB
met Rose Macaulay
, who introduced her to Naomi Royde-Smith
. Royde-Smith helped her to get the first of her writing into print.
Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press, 1994.
8-9
Friends, Associates
Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH
knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald
, though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also...
After her rift with Naomi Royde-Smith
, RM
began associating more with the Bloomsbury group and with the Friday Hampstead Circle.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
209-10
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
102
Friends, Associates
Rose Macaulay
Friends who attended the house-warming of her London flat included Naomi Royde-Smith
, Rupert Brooke
, and Walter de la Mare
.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
100
Friends, Associates
Rose Macaulay
In 1921 RM
was spending several nights a week in a room she rented in the large house of writer Naomi Royde-Smith
at 44 Prince's Gardens, Kensington.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
191
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
100
Chosen by Royde-Smith as a...
Literary responses
Mary Martha Sherwood
Virginia Woolf
's Kitty Malone in The Years has read The History of the Fairchild Family. Naomi Royde-Smith
dedicated her book on MMS
to her parents, who in the year 1884 when a bachelor...
Literary responses
Kate O'Brien
KOB
called this not a historical novel, but an invention rising from reflection on its central characters.
qtd. in
Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987.
71
Naomi Royde-Smith
, however, reviewed it as not only KOB
's best novel to date but also...
Literary responses
Mary Martha Sherwood
Naomi Royde-Smith
thought equally highly of this novel both as child and as adult reader.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan, 1946.
xvi
Literary responses
Mary Martha Sherwood
The Spectator praised this book as bearing the stamp of truth and as having greater interest than some more ambitious fictions.
qtd. in
Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Books By, For, and About Women of the British Isles, 1696-1892. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts, Feb. 2007.
Naomi Royde-Smith
judged this technically the best of her works for its clarity and...