Lionel Trilling

Friends made in New York included PHJ 's publisher Charles Scribner , as well as Diana and Lionel Trillingwhom I loved, but always found a little intimidating. At home her literary friends included...

EBB 's reputation fell sharply after the turn of the century. Virginia Woolf wittily remarked in the 1930s: fate has not been kind to Mrs Browning as a writer. Nobody reads her, nobody discusses her...

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, than which it...

Not all responses were favourable. Lionel Trilling likened Welty to Woolf , which he did not intend to be complimentary. The aforementioned TLS reviewer, who hailed the humour of the title piece, noted that in...