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 As a widow she authored a travel book, edited unpublished work by her husband, returned to novel-writing, and found her niche (since much of her work is dominated by recovery of the past) with three volumes of slight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 Mary Cholmondeley
Red Pottage was highly controversial when it was published, and its negative depiction of the clergy was denounced from pulpits (though Queen Victoria was rumoured to have read and enjoyed it). One church periodical went...
Occupation Henri-Frédéric Amiel
He became a philosopher and a professor of aesthetics, and published a number of books including a study of Germaine de Staël . His best known work, however, was his diary. It exerted an influence...
Occupation Ann Bridge
Since, however, writing seemed unlikely to yield her a livelihood, she went immediately to work as assistant secretary for the Charity Organization Society , Chelsea branch. This paid her twenty-three shillings a week, with hours...
Occupation Florence Farr
Susan Grosvenor (later Tweedsmuir), who saw this production, was at first frankly bewildered by the chorus, which was like nothing she had ever seen or heard. But, she wrote later, soon the splendid poetry opened...
Author summary Catherine Carswell
CC is best known for her 1920 novel, Open the Door!, and her insightful critical biography of her close friend D. H. Lawrence . Her literary corpus consists of two novels, three biographies, and...
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...
Textual Production John Buchan
Some of JB 's best-known later novels are Huntingtower, 1922 (which introduces the contemporary Glaswegian character Dickson McCunn), Midwinter, 1923 (historical), The Three Hostages, 1924 (another thriller), Witch Wood, 1927 (his...
Textual Production Catherine Carswell
At the time of her death, CC was researching a biography of Calvin and had been engaged to help Susan Tweedsmuir on the sorting of John Buchan 's papers. Carswell's work on the papers formed...
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, 1977.
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