Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
xiii, 290
Dorothy Parker
Standard Name: Parker, Dorothy
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Ali Smith | This volume, themed around eruptions of conflict between lovers, features short-story selections from Jhumpa Lahiri
, Jackie Kay
, D. H. Lawrence
, Katherine Mansfield
, Dorothy Parker
, and Grace Paley
(as in the... |
| Textual Features | Stevie Smith | This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS
... |
| Textual Features | G. B. Stern | A listing of books which GBS
feels to be particularly her own includes Jane Austen
, Edna St Vincent Millay
, Dorothy Parker
, and Rebecca West
's essays. But most of the women authors... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sara Maitland | Ellie endures a great deal during the story. Her husband leaves her, wanting a divorce. A young friend dies of AIDS and the glass teardrop she has made for him gets broken. Her brother tries... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | Thomas Hardy
(as reported by Elinor Wylie
) is believed to have said her poems were one of the only two great things in the United States, the other being the skyscraper. |
| Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | In Ohio they met novelist Louis Bromfield
, who was also hosting Blanche
and Alfred Knopf
. While in Dallas Jameson lunched at the Dallas News building and was seated opposite Dorothy Parker
, as... |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | During her second American trip, those whom ES
met included some of the writers previously encountered, and also Carson McCullers
, Ethel Barrymore
, Mary Pickford
, Dorothy Parker
, and Harpo Marx
. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 291-3 |
| Friends, Associates | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Among the many literary figures personally known to STW
were Theodore Francis Powys
and his wife Violet
(the friends who introduced her to the poet Valentine Ackland
) and novelist Nancy Cunard
. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii. xiii-xiv Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, Sinclair-Stevenson, p. various pages. 2 |
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