Kingsley Amis

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 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...

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...

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...

Dodie Smith, best known for writing the beloved children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956), began her career as a dramatist; she wrote a series of hit plays in the 1930s. In the 1940s...

Her subjects include George Eliot 's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston , Franz Kafka , Vonnegut and Salinger as cult figures, Roland Barthes and Vladimir Nabokov (pitted against each other as attacker and booster of...

This was praised by British Book News, which rejoiced to find ES 's astonishing verbal dexterity employed in her later work upon themes of ever-increasing profundity . . . . She is a poet...

The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...

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...

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...

This book was runner-up (to Brigid Brophy 's) for the Cheltenham Literary Festival's prize for a first novel. It and her second caused IM to be grouped with the so-called socially anarchic school

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...

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...

At OxfordPL embarked, with Kingsley Amis , on a series of wild parodies and travesties, most notably Larkin's Willow Gables series of spoof school stories for girls. He also provided ideas, suggestions, a plot...