TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)...
Friends, Associates
Rebecca West
Over her lifetime, RW
made countless friends. These included US journalist Dorothy Thompson
(whose long-lasting friendship with her is treated in Susan Hertog
's double biography Dangerous Ambition. Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women...
Friends, Associates
Nina Hamnett
She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska
in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry
at Guildford (where Lady Strachey
led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with...
Friends, Associates
Naomi Jacob
NJ
said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott
.
Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson, 1933.
174-6
Her friends in the music-hall and the theatre included a roster of distinguished and less distinguished...
Literary responses
Margaret Kennedy
Reviewers have likened Kennedy to Jane Austen
, one of her literary role models. In a review for the New York World, Beverley Nichols
stated that she would be a robust Jane Austen,...
Literary responses
Penelope Mortimer
Edith Sitwell
and Beverley Nichols
testified to being enthralled
qtd. in
Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993.
MD
had begun publishing stories in magazines by the time she was working on One Pair of Feet. By 1943 she was writing book reviews for the Sunday Chronicle. After the war she...
Textual Features
Theodora Benson
Her contributors include Louis Golding
on his first time horse-racing and Beverley Nichols
on having an Affaire. Betty Askwith
wrote of being bitten with the travel bug (on a journey in company with TB