Another sister, Rachel
, became a poet, and the youngest sister, Catherine (who died early), a journalist. Their eldest brother, Thomas
, became another historian. The novelist Anthony Powell
married into the Pakenham family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Pakenham
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
Novelist Anthony Powell
was AF
's uncle by marriage (his wife being born a Pakenham). Perhaps not surprisingly in this household full of literary creativity, three of AF's siblings—her sisters Rachel
and Judith
, and...
Literary responses
Elspeth Huxley
Anthony Powell
reviewed this novel badly in the Times Literary Supplement, but he was in a minority. In The TimesOliver Prescott
praised it as constantly interesting,
qtd. in
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
209
though not emotionally powerful, with...
Literary responses
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Of this novel ICB
wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews.
qtd. in
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
The reviewer for the TLS was Anthony Powell
, who gave a sympathetic account of the book but noted that the topic had taken all the author's ingenuity to weld into a workmanlike novel, that...
Literary responses
Evelyn Waugh
Responses to the series varied widely. Anthony Powell
welcomed the first of the trilogy in the Times Literary Supplement, noting that it combined its serious portrayal of a middle-aged civilian caught up in war...
Publishing
Lucy Toulmin Smith
The half-title of volume 3 reads Leland's Itinerary in Wales; the other volumes read Leland's Itinerary in England and Wales.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
A facsimile reprint, issued by Centaur Press
in 1964 and weighing almost three...
Textual Features
Olivia Manning
The first trilogy draws on OM
's experience of the early years of the Second World War in eastern Europe. In both trilogies, British national concerns are disconcertingly filtered through people whose priorities and loyalties...
Timeline
April 1952: Ralph Ellison his novel The Invisible Man,...
Writing climate item
April 1952
Ralph Ellison
his novel The Invisible Man, ranked as better than any other novel of its time
Greif, Mark. “Black and White Life”. London Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2007, pp. 11-13.
11
by a recent critic.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
27 January 2009
Texts
Powell, Anthony Dymoke. “Escape from Environment”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2609, p. 89.
Powell, Anthony Dymoke. “West African Rock”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2417, p. 302.