qtd. in
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Antonia White | Cyril Connolly
thought her explanations of this move were like making desperate attempts to retain [her] reason and finally lapsing into insanity. qtd. in Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4. 33 |
Education | George Orwell | Brought back to England at the age of three, Eric Blair (later GO
) was enabled by a scholarship and contributions from relations to go to St Cyprian's, a well-known but oppressive boys' preparatory school... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | One factor in dividing CB
from Freud may have been her involvement with Cyril Connolly
, who pursued her although or because he had been a friend of her father's at Eton. In the last... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen
and Natasha Spender
, Alec Waugh
, Margaret Lane
, Malcolm Sargent
, and Joyce Grenfell
. She also met Cyril Connolly
, Olivia Manning
, Stevie Smith |
Friends, Associates | Sybille Bedford | Introduced to Aldous Huxley
and his wife Maria
by the South African poet Roy Campbell
while at Sanary, the young SB
became their intimate friend. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint, 2005. 249-50 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bowen | Frequent guests at Bowen's Court (where, says Victoria Glendinning, they ate and drank royally) Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 254 |
Friends, Associates | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
was rather apt to turn her friends into lovers. She also developed a strong rapport with more than one man with whose wife she was sexually involved: Denys Trefusis
and later Roy Campbell
... |
Health | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
suffered from recurrent bouts of bronchitis and a chronic smoker's cough. In 1972, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent radium treatment. She lost her voice and had considerable difficulty breathing. She was... |
Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This book had the kind of scandalous success that PHJ
later associated with Kingsley Amis
's Lucky Jimnineteen years later. It was considered a signal success, but the kind of success that brought its... |
Literary responses | E. B. C. Jones | Cyril Connolly
called this novel a moving and conscientious study of fondness written with sobriety and grace. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | Novelist and critic Charles Morgan
reviewed the London stage performance for the Times, praising the brutal vulgarity of Sanger's mistress Linda, but finding the dramatised version of Florence too harsh. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 79-80 |
Literary responses | Sylvia Beach | Her friend Cyril Connolly
thought this work a charming, gay astringent scrapbook. qtd. in Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 412 |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's Epilogue relates her own anxiety, on the day the book was first published, about its probable reception. She was flooded with relief, joy, gratitude, at finding both Cyril Connolly
and Philip Toynbee |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | Cyril Connolly
expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 78 |
Literary responses | Edith Templeton | The Surprise of Cremona was generally well reviewed. Though the New Yorker described it as delightful and infuriating in about equal proportions, most reviewers agreed that the idiosyncratic account leaned to the delightful. qtd. in Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson, 1913–2024. (1957): 908 |
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