Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8.
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Textual Production | Penelope Shuttle | The first book that affected PS
deeply was Brontë
's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8. 48 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jennings | In the second of these years the student editors, Kingsley Amis
and James Michie
, made their selection under the specific rubric of toughness and modernity. “Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jane Howard | She found it deeply depressing that this act of violence should have come as no surprise to herself and Kingsley Amis
, with their recent experience of Nashville, Tennessee. Murder, she observed, does not come... |
Textual Features | Zadie Smith | 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... |
Residence | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
and Kingsley Amis
moved out from London to a house on Hadley Common near Barnet called Lemmons. Barnet, once in Hertfordshire, now ranks as Greater London. They restored the house's traditional name of Lemmons Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 372-4 |
Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove
welcomed EJ
as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2705 (4 December 1953): 778 |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | This book was runner-up (to Brigid Brophy
's) for the Cheltenham Literary Festival's prize for a first novel. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 486 British Book News. British Council. (1957): 451 |
Author summary | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
was a twentieth-century English poet writing on family, literary, and religious subjects. Peter Levi
calls her maybe the last poet of what may be called the soul. The Ship. St Anne’s College. 92: 54 |
Author summary | Dodie Smith | 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... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
's assignments in 1974 included, as well as the Rose Kennedy
interview, acting as one of the three judges of the Booker Prize. (Another judge this year was A. S. Byatt
.) Howard received... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Wendy Cope | In the year that she gave up part-time teaching to become a freelance writer full-time, WC
published the first substantial collection of her poems, entitled Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Philip Larkin | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
finished this novel during the beginning of her life with Kingsley Amis
, at Sitges in Spain, in a hotel in Pollenza on Mallorca, and finally in their top-floor flat in London... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Kingsley Amis
biographer Zachary Leader
claims that while Howard lived with Amis at Lemmons and later in Hampstead, her writing was limited to journalism, her monthly column in Brides magazine, and various works for... |
Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | 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... |