Kingsley Amis

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...

She finished this novel while living in the house of her friend Ursula Vaughan Williams (its dedicatee) after leaving Kingsley Amis . She was invited to write the script for its filming by Randal Kleiser

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...

EJH married as her third husband the novelist Kingsley Amis , at Marylebone town hall.

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...

Kingsley Amis , divorced husband of EJH , died in hospital of pneumonia, following a fall and a suspected stroke.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...