Joan Bennett

Standard Name: Bennett, Joan

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Frankau
Her daughter Joan (by marriage Joan Bennett ) became a university teacher and published books in the 1940s on George Eliot and Virginia Woolf .
Frankau, Reuben. Emails to Orlando about Julia Frankau, with attached bibliography. 15–16 Aug. 2011.
Literary responses George Eliot
The critical tide did not turn (despite some acute criticism from Virginia Woolf , who called Middlemarchthe magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up...
Reception D. H. Lawrence
Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...

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Texts

Bennett, Joan. “Not So Common”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3721, p. 740.