Susan Tweedsmuir

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Standard Name: Tweedsmuir, Susan
Birth Name: Susan Charlotte Grosvenor
Nickname: Susie
Married Name: Susan Charlotte Buchan
Titled: Susan Charlotte Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir
Pseudonym: Harmonia
ST , still Susan Buchan and married to a more famous author, John Buchan , began publishing in collaboration with him. From their joint novel, published just after the First World War, she continued on her own to biography, books for children, and plays, then to a novel of her own. As a widow she authored a travel book, edited unpublished work by her husband, returned to novel-writing, and found her niche (since much of her work is dominated by recovery of the past) with three volumes of slight and apparently haphazard (but charming) memoirs that took the form of retrospective essays.
Black and white, half-length photograph of Susan Tweedsmuir, seated, in formal evening dress: a pale sleeveless gown with V neck and two medals pinned to it, white elbow-length gloves, a white ostrich-feather fan, tiara, necklace, and drop pearl earrings. Her hair is short, curled at the sides.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Martin Ross
Reviews were excellent. Susan Tweedsmuir later recorded that it took her the shortest possible time to fall under the spell of Somerville and Ross, and that she remained entranced by their edged style and explosive...
Travel Angela Thirkell
After staying with John Buchan and Susan Tweedsmuir in Ottawa, AT visited Quebec and Montreal for a few days with her son Graham McInnes , who had settled in Canada and taken Canadian citizenship.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
114-15
Friends, Associates Angela Thirkell
Her literary friends included Lady Cynthia Asquith , Lady Cynthia's mother Lady Wemyss , Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir , and E. V. Lucas of Punch. With Lucas some kind of breach took place before the...
Literary responses Angela Thirkell
Susan Tweedsmuir much admired The Demon in the House when she first read it, and sent AT a copy of her recent children's book, Arabella, in return.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
83
Friends, Associates Alison Uttley
By the time AU 's mentor, Professor Alexander, died (deeply upset about Hitler's rule in Germany), she had met another father-figure and important friend, the poet Walter de la Mare . She also developed friendships...
Reception Elizabeth von Arnim
Semi-fictional diaries by Elizabeth became the hallmark of the books with which she followed this one in series, including The Solitary Summer (1899), April Baby's Book of Tunes (1900), and Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen...
Literary responses Elizabeth von Arnim
Though Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther was not an especial favourite of reviewers, the Evening News credited it with an insight into life which makes the author one of the finest, if not the finest...
Friends, Associates Mary Webb
MW was a friend of critic Adrian Bury and was close to Welsh writer and critic Caradoc Evans , who met her in London and in whom she confided her hopes and fears.
His widow's...
Literary responses Mary Webb
Susan Tweedsmuir later wrote that Gone to Earth had opened a new door to me,
Tweedsmuir, Susan. A Winter Bouquet. G. Duckworth.
110
while her husband, John Buchan , wrote of one passage: If this is not magic I do not know...

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