Mary Gordon
wrote in the New York Times: There is a bracing acerbity to her voice, and a refusal to reduce the important human experiences to simple categories. Everything is less or more than...
Literary responses
Edna O'Brien
EOB
is known as a writer who appeals to academic, popular, and other audiences. Her work has been appreciated by contemporaries, including John Berger
, Mary Gordon
, and Claire Tomalin
.
Wheeler, Kathleen. A Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists. Blackwell, 1997.
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The first...
Reception
Barbara Pym
Pym was in great demand at this point in her career, giving print, radio, and television interviews, for example, and meeting with the writer of the first dissertation on her work.
Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984.
