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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Philip Larkin | A couple of the poems in this volume (dedicated to Kingsley Amis
) date back to 1946. A number of them were later included in The Less Deceived and one in an edition (not the... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Jane Howard | She finished this novel while living in the house of her friend Ursula Vaughan Williams
(its dedicatee) after leaving Kingsley Amis
. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 429 |
Education | Philip Larkin | In October 1940 he went up to St John's College, Oxford
. He studied English language and literature, and took a first-class Honours BA in 1943. Important friendships formed in his undergraduate days were those... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
married as her third husband the novelist Kingsley Amis
, at Marylebone town hall. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Kingsley Amis Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 364 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
left her third husband, Kingsley Amis
. She told each of her staff, but not Amis, that she was not coming back, and went for a week to a health farm, to let him... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Kingsley Amis
, divorced husband of EJH
, died in hospital of pneumonia, following a fall and a suspected stroke. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Amis |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Taylor | Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Fay Weldon | Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
, David
and Assia Wevill
, Kingsley Amis
and Elizabeth Jane Howard
, Bernice Rubens
, psychologist R. D. Laing |
Friends, Associates | Philip Larkin | PL
's friendship with Jim Sutton
, dating from his schooldays,terminated abruptly in January 1952. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 136 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jennings | Amis
later identified Jennings as the star of the show, our discovery. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | This novel too was praised by Ivy Compton-Burnett
. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 284 |
Literary responses | Rumer Godden | At the Whitbread ceremony Kingsley Amis
said, I only wish adult fiction was written half as well. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 281 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jennings | She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council
(after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972. “Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library. |