Byatt, A. S. The Matisse Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Mary Gawthorpe | From St Michael's MG
, aged thirteen, won a scholarship to a local high school, but it was awarded without maintenance. (The dictation in the scholarship exam had been about the migration of terns, a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Drabble | Novelist A. S. Byatt
is MD
's older sister. Drabble has observed, about being a younger sister: You are always behind. No matter how hard you try. She will always be older, cleverer, in higher heels. Mackenzie, Suzie. “Mothers and daughters”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Family and Intimate relationships | F. Tennyson Jesse | Her grandmother Emily Tennyson
, the poet's sister, had been engaged to his great friend Arthur Hallam
before she married FTJ
's grandfather years after Hallam's death. A. S. Byatt
has used FTJ
as narrator... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Kennedy | A later novelist, Barbara Pym
, thought of The Heroes of Clone as pattern for a fiction setting side by side what researchers and biographers write of a person's life and then what really did... |
Literary responses | Ali Smith | A. S. Byatt
praised Smith's novel as sharp, witty, innovatory and moving, Byatt, A. S. “An exciting event this year has been the publication...”. The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5670, p. 9. 9 |
Literary responses | Ruth Fainlight | |
Literary responses | Hilary Mantel | HM
already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison
, 2004. A. S. Byatt
discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen
and Muriel Spark |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Graham Greene
offered the same accolade as for her previous novel, recognizing its disappointing reception with: What fools the reviewers have been. Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Greene, RichardEditor , Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 317 |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt
and John Updike
. Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov
or de Maupassant |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | This novel was nominated for the Booker McConnell Prize in the year of its publication. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981. 76 |
Literary responses | Margaret Atwood | Novelist and critic Aritha Van Herk
found this volume less playful than its predecessors,a dry and dire collection . . . . Atwood as Cassandra, wailing her prophecy in the ear of a deaf... |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | A. S. Byatt
called Mother's Girla major achievement. Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013. 245 |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | After it won the O. Henry Prize (in the first year in which Canadians were eligible for this award) Munro described the genesis of the title story in an actual occurrence where a woman and... |
Literary responses | Pat Barker | With this novel PB
won the Guardian Fiction Prize. A. S. Byatt
wrote that the book provided a new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and... |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | Among a rich harvest of prizes and honours, AM
won the Giller Prize in both 1998 and 2004. In 2002 an Alice Munro Literary Garden, just beside the museum, was dedicated in Wingham, Ontario... |