Moffat, Gwen. The Storm Seekers. Secker and Warburg, 1989.
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Literary responses | Laura Riding | LR
always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article... |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | The first series was praised by critics but was less than successful in terms of sales. OMbegan to feel that she was neglected as a serious novelist, a view shared by some contemporary writers... |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Notable amid a chorus of praise for the two trilogies which make up OM
's Fortunes of War (often from fellow writers) was Anthony Burgess
. He admired the work's gallery of characters and places... |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | She enjoyed the fact that alphabetical order placed her next in the queue of award-winners to the tv comics Morecambe and Wise. Lord Weidenfeld
, who had recently become her publisher, gave a large party... |
Literary responses | Gwen Moffat | Anthony Burgess
wrote of this book in The ObserverThe sense of time, space, and wilderness is admirably, sometimes piercingly conveyed. Moffat, Gwen. The Storm Seekers. Secker and Warburg, 1989. back cover |
Literary responses | Anita Brookner | It was widely felt that her productivity (almost a novel a year) had the effect of lowering her valuation. Her quiet novels provoked some aggressive criticism, like that of Peter Kemp
, or of Anthony Burgess |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Anthony Burgess
praised AC
for doing something in this novel which she did in later ones as well: looking at the mess of contemporary life without flinching. Lee, Alison. Angela Carter. Twayne, 1997. 23 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | Once published, Wednesday, and Other Stories was reviewed by a member of the new generation, Anthony Burgess
, as illuminating and startling. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Kathleen Raine | KR
declined the invitation of the Royal Society of Literature
to become a Companion of Literature, saying the companionship had been cheapened by its award to the journalistsIris Murdoch
and Anthony Burgess
. Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, 8 July 2003, p. 25. 25 |
Reception | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Despite her own claim that she would not regard it as a compliment to be told she was in the mainstream of the contemporary novel, Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974. 34 |
Textual Features | A. S. Byatt |
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