Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie, 1952.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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
, Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie, 1952. 175 |
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. |