Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie, 1952.
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Ruth Pitter
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Standard Name: Pitter, Ruth
Birth Name: Ruth Pitter
During a career that spanned the greater part of the twentieth century, RP
published eighteen collections of poetry. She left letters and a journal, and occasionally spoke or wrote on literary topics. Her admirers have seen her work as offering an alternative to experimental modernism. She has four poems in the Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse edited by Philip Larkin
in 1973.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Alison Uttley | Despite the Blyton fiasco, AU
formed friendships with several fellow-writers. She became friends with children's writer Eleanor Farjeon
, whom she met in June 1954; poet Ruth Pitter
, whom she met in spring 1956... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | This friendship led to others for DW
, for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil
, Sir William Rothenstein
, Rex Whistler
, H. A. L. Fisher |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | Among these readers, Ruth Pitter
became a valued friend of DW
, |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
| Friends, Associates | George Orwell | One of those who helped him in a small way financially at his leanest period was the poet Ruth Pitter
. |
| Leisure and Society | Margaret Kennedy | MK
was a guest at a literary dinner honouring Ruth Pitter
for winning the Hawthornden prize (for A Trophy of Arms), and Margaret Lane
(who had won the Femina Vie Heureuse prize in 1935... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Margaret Kennedy | Shortly after the publication of Together and Apart, MK
attended a literary dinner celebrating Ruth Pitter
for her Hawthornden prize. At this dinner, Pitter gave a speech in which (as if reflecting the influence... |
| Occupation | Dorothy Wellesley | |
| Occupation | Viola Meynell | Her first broadcast was, appropriately, on her mother, Alice Meynell
. The BBC director praised her for being the best first-time presenter he had ever seen. She followed up with programmes on Francis Thompson
,... |
| Reception | E. J. Scovell | This volume was a Poetry Book Society
recommendation. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 122 |
| Reception | Frances Cornford | In this honour she followed Ruth Pitter
(the first woman to be awarded the Queen's gold medal) and preceded Stevie Smith
. |
| Textual Features | Germaine Greer | Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Amy Clampitt
, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
, Emily Dickinson
, Freda Downie
, U. A. Fanthorpe
, Vicki Feaver |
| Textual Production | George Orwell | GO
began writing during his down-and-out period after his return from British imperial Asia. The poet Ruth Pitter
, who read some of his early work in draft, later recalled that we cruel girls... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jennings | In 1990 she supplied the introduction for the Enitharmon Press
edition of the Collected Poems of Ruth Pitter
(who was to die two years later). British Library Catalogue. |
Timeline
1907
Alfred Richard Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, No. 2, pp. 33 - 5.
34
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Orage
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online.
Earlier 1937
Ruth Pitter
was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for her poetry; the presentation was made by Vita Sackville-West
.