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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Of this novel ICB
wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 190 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | |
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, Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 209 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Kazantzis | 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 |
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... |
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. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Literary responses | Evelyn Waugh | 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... |