Reggie Oliver

Standard Name: Oliver, Reggie

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Cultural formation Stella Gibbons
SG 's neighbourhood was considered to be working- and lower-middle class, but her father's professional status set her family apart from their surroundings. According to Reggie Oliver , SG 's biographer and nephew, her close...
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Gibbons
Such earthy regionalists—who include Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence , as well as Webb and Kaye-Smith —become the butt of SG 's satire in Cold Comfort Farm.
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
66, 112
Reggie Oliver suggests that...
Textual Features Stella Gibbons
SG 's biographer, Reggie Oliver , speculates that the lesbian writer figure, Dorothy Hoad, may be based on Dorothy Wellesley .
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
50-1
The lesbian love scenes sometimes parody Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness.
Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago.
219
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
141
Literary responses Stella Gibbons
The collection did not fare well with critics, but Reggie Oliver believes that For Those in the Depths is one of SG 's best stories.
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
213-14

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Texts

Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.