Kingsley Amis

Amis later identified Jennings as the star of the show, our discovery.

This novel too was praised by Ivy Compton-Burnett .Kingsley Amis , in a retrospective essay on ET 's career, noticed her ability to combine an often withering disgust for hypocrisy and self-delusion with...

At the Whitbread ceremony Kingsley Amis said, I only wish adult fiction was written half as well. This book also won a Dutch award, the Silver Pen for the Children's Book of the Year...

Kingsley Amis welcomed this book in a style of irony to match its own: a warning to any readers who happened to dislike the prospect of loneliness, old age, and approaching death that the novel...

FH remained continuously in print throughout the Victorian period, but her critical reputation and popularity waned before its close and died with modernism. She lingered on in popular memory as the author of popular recitation...

She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972. Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford

This book had the kind of scandalous success that PHJ later associated with Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jimnineteen years later. It was considered a signal success, but the kind of success that brought its...

The Times Literary Supplement defined the subject-matter here as the flux of relationships at a level of intimacy which demands the most delicate investigation if we are to discover truth. When Howard was already the...

For a first publication, this garnered much positive comment. While The Guardian, Sir John Betjeman in the Daily Telegraph, and Angus Wilson in the Observer were comparatively unappreciative, Kingsley Amis in The Spectator...

LR always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article...

Her omnivorous reading during the last year of her degree included the major modern novelists, notably including Proust and Woolf (the darling dangerous woman who made her feel quite incapable of writing anything straight...

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...

Friends said that ET was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. She was lucky in that Ivy Compton-Burnett (who was a generation older than she was, and notoriously difficult) and...

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

PL 's friendship with Jim Sutton , dating from his schooldays,terminated abruptly in January 1952. One of his closest male friends, from his university days onwards, was the novelist Kingsley Amis . The...