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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Mary Butts
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.
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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...
Friends, Associates Pamela Frankau
Her aunt Eliza Aria introduced the very young PF to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike and writers Michael Arlen and Osbert Sitwell .
Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson, 1935.
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Later came John Van Druten
Friends, Associates Storm Jameson
Michael Sadleir first took Jameson to the Thursday evening salons hosted by Naomi Royde-Smith at her Queen's Gate home. These gatherings were attended by Rose Macaulay , Arnold Bennett , Edward Marsh , and Frank Swinnerton
Friends, Associates Rose Macaulay
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
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.
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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.
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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...
Literary responses Radclyffe Hall
A number of writers rallied in support of RH . E. M. Forster and Leonard Woolf drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw , T. S. Eliot
Literary responses Mary Butts
Naomi Royde-Smith , an acquaintance of MB , referred in print in 1946 to the spiritual wanderings detailed by this gifted and expressive autobiographer.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan, 1946.
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Literary responses Pamela Frankau
PF 's new agent had accomplished the whole process of selling this book before he had time to read it. He then reminded her that she had her forebears (grandmother and father) to beat; that...

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Texts

Royde-Smith, Naomi. A Balcony. E. Benn, 1927.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. A Private Anthology. Constable, 1924.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. All Star Cast. Macmillan, 1936.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Children in the Wood. Constable, 1928.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. For Us in the Dark. Macmillan, 1937.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Jake: A Novel. Macmillan, 1935.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Jane Fairfax. Macmillan.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Love and a Birdcage. R. Hale, 1960.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Madam Julia’s Tale. V. Gollancz, 1932.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Melilot. R. Hale, 1955.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Mrs. Siddons. V. Gollancz, 1931.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Outside Information. Macmillan, 1941.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Roger Packman Hinks. Pictures and People. V. Gollancz, 1930.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Pilgrim from Paddington. A. Barker, 1933.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, editor. Poets of Our Day. Methuen, 1908.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. “Proof”. HorrorMasters.com.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Tales and Stories from Spenser’s Faery Queene. Dent, 1905.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Altar-Piece. Macmillan, 1939.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Bridge. Gollancz, 1932.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Delicate Situation. V. Gollancz, 1931.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Double Heart. Hamish Hamilton, 1931.
Royde-Smith, Naomi et al. The Idol and the Shrine. Hollis and Carter, 1949.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Island: a Love Story. Constable, 1930.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Lover. Constable, 1928.
Supervielle, Jules, and Muriel Broderick. The Ox and the Ass at the Manger. Translator Royde-Smith, Naomi, Hollis and Carter, 1945.