Selina Hastings

Besides the anthologies mentioned by her editors Greer and Hastings , there were at least fourteen reprints during the first half of the eighteenth century of AW 's song beginning How hardly I conceal'd my tears.

In their edition of AW , Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings expressed the opinion that further poems by her were likely to surface. This happened within less than a decade. A newly discovered manuscript of...

Reviewers were pleased to see more fiction from Lehmann after nine years, and the book was popular, although not hugely applauded. Those praising it included Edwin Muir . There was much debate over the real-life...

EJH says of The Light Years, as of several of her later books, that it was published to a fairly quiet reception. As the tetralogy progressed, interest in it grew; the books sold very...

Novelist Christopher Isherwood became Lehmann's friend as a result of his admiration of this book. Her biographer Selina Hastings calls it a novel almost without flaw, and undoubtedly the best of RL 's works.

Her doctors, however, said that her operation for cataracts had succeeded and that she was physically able to get out of bed. They described her complaints as bids for sympathy, hysterical attention-getting. Her biographer...

In her final decade RL 's old friends found her difficult and demanding; but the rediscovery of her novels brought her the pleasure of young friends: publisher Carmen Callil , novelist Anita Brookner , and...