Byatt, A. S. The Matisse Stories. Chatto and Windus.
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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... |
Literary responses | Penelope Fitzgerald | This volume prompted A. S. Byatt
to call its author Jane Austen
's nearest heir. “Flamingo Press advertisement for ’The Means of Escape’ by Penelope Fitzgerald”. London Review of Books, p. 21. 21 |
Literary responses | Iris Murdoch | The first monograph on IM
was that of 1965 by A. S. Byatt
, who faulted her for the inconsistency of her fiction with her expressed philosophic views. This study provoked further academic discussion, and... |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | WC
's own later comments on this book were somewhat grudging. It was conventional, she said, carefully arranged but unnecessary and superficial. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf. 92 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Initial comment included reviews or articles by A. S. Byatt
and Marghanita Laski
. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 198, 199 Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 40 |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | H. L. Mencken
called this a book of very fine achievement and of even finer promise. Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Editor Urgo, Joseph R., Broadview Press. 297 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively
wrote, I am always surprised that the... |
Literary responses | Georgette Heyer | Joanna Cannan
(a friend of GH
) based a character on her in No Walls of Jasper (1930) who is described in Heyeresque style. She is not beautiful, not pretty; her nose was too large... |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | This novel poses a challenge both to contemporary and to later conventions of gender morality—a fact reflected in the tendency of commentators to liken it to Flaubert
's Madame Bovary, Cather, Willa. A Lost Lady. Virago. cover |
Literary responses | Kamila Shamsie | A Library Journal review called the novel a beautifully-written tale that is equal parts A. S. Byatt
-style mystery and mother-daughter saga and the compelling angle that post-9/11 Pakistani politics add to themes of responsibility... |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | In the early twenty-first century A. S. Byatt
discovered ES
when, working on her novel The Children's Book, she asked scholar Jack Zipes
for links between fairy stories and turn-of-the-century socialism and he mentioned Sharp. Byatt, A. S. “Freedom won’t wait”. guardian.co.uk. |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | This novel won the Prix Femina Américain. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39. 37 |
Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This novel marked a step forward in the public valuation of PHJ
. Walter Allen
called it one of the best novels of our time. Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne. 125 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | A. S. Byatt
in early 2008 found herself interested and excited by this book (then about to be reprinted). She described Sharp as perspicacious, witty and a very good writer. “Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, pp. Review 4 - 6. 4 |
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