The actor Robert Speaight
wrote an obituary of her for the Catholic newspaper The Tablet. Her husband outlived her by ten years.
Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol.
218
, No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21.
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Friends, Associates
Naomi Royde-Smith
Another close friend of NRS
, J. D. Beresford
, a highly-regarded novelist, was also an important friend to Dorothy Richardson
, and a mentor and support to Macaulay as well as Royde-Smith, and such...
Literary responses
Naomi Royde-Smith
Robert Speaight
wrote that Royde-Smith's wide erudition made this and her biography of Maurice
and Eugénie de Guérinmodels of their kind.
Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol.
218
, No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21.
Literary responses
Naomi Royde-Smith
This book, wrote the distinguished actor Robert Speaight
, shows a profound understanding of histrionic genius.
Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol.
218
, No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21.
Literary responses
Kathleen Nott
This book was controversial. Philip Toynbee
called it a rare example of vigorous polemic, witty, hard-hitting and deeply serious.
The Times responded with a front-page article (anonymous, as all...
Literary responses
Naomi Royde-Smith
Marjorie Grant Cook
in the Times Literary Supplement welcomed this closely-written story, full of music and concerts but not overwhelmingly technical, with its impression of rich and varied interests, of groups, cities, artists and eccentrics...
Performance of text
T. S. Eliot
Robert Speaight
played the lead role. In November 1935, the play transferred to the public stage (the Mercury Theatre
at Notting Hill Gate in London). It was then given at the Old Vic
.
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Textual Features
Anne Ridler
AR
's play is set in a wartime or immediately postwar factory. The arrogant and insensitive, output-obsessed Director of the factory (played by Robert Speaight
)
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
146
summons an artist to give his workers...
Timeline
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Texts
Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol.
218
, No. 6481, p. 21.
Speaight, Robert. The Life of Hilaire Belloc. Hollis and Carter, 1957.