Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
Cyril Connolly
Standard Name: Connolly, Cyril
Connections
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
began writing stories early. She finished several in late 1941 and early 1942 which satisfied her at the time without shaking her convictioon that she was not yet writing well. None of these survive... |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | With Claud Cockburn
, Cyril Connolly
, Kenneth Tynan
, Peter Forster
, Wynford Vaughan Thomas
, and Steven Watson
, ML
co-wrote the script for the BBC
television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb. |
Reception | Cecily Mackworth | She received a five-pound tip for an article on Apollinaire
published by Horizon; Cyril Connolly
had appealed to readers to supplement his mean rates of pay by a tip for anything they particularly liked. Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 53 |
Publishing | Violet Trefusis | VT
published one short story and one essay in Horizon while the magazine was under the editorship of her friend Cyril Connolly
. |
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. Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson. (1957): 908 |
Literary responses | Sylvia Beach | Her friend Cyril Connolly
thought this work a charming, gay astringent scrapbook. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 412 |
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. 78 |
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. 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. 79-80 |
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 |
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... |
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
... |
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. 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. 254 |
Timeline
April 1935: Heinemann, publisher of Bessie Cotter by...
Writing climate item
April 1935
Heinemann
, publisher of Bessie Cotter by Wallace Smith
, was fined £100 after pleading guilty to a charge of obscene libel.
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