qtd. in
McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer, 10 June 2001.
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Pat Arrowsmith | She did not learn the facts of life until she was eleven or twelve. Before that she knew that kittens came out of cats, but not how they got there. Her self-education about sexuality was... |
Education | Helen Dunmore | While HD
was growing up she read a lot of Russian fiction and poetry. qtd. in McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer, 10 June 2001. McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer, 10 June 2001. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | She shared the Sion Road house with her younger brother Henry and her close friend Margaret Mitchell
. Castro, J. Paul de. “Laetitia Hawkins and Boswell”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 185 , 18 Dec. 1943, pp. 373-4. 373 |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
's friends included Margaret Mitchell
, Frances Reynolds
, Cornelia Knight
, Anna Williams
(from whom she received particular kindness), and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | James Tiptree Jr. | With epigraphs from Conrad Aiken
, Coleridge
, and W. H. Davies
, the author was clearly casting around for a poetic style. She veers between over-ripe romantic sentiment, plaintive expression of pain and loneliness... |
Literary responses | Angela Thirkell | AT
never over-estimated her own talent. She wrote that she and her fictional alter-ego, Laura Morland, each write the same book each year with unfailing regularity, and called her own work not very good books... |
Publishing | Emma Tennant | The Margaret Mitchell
Estate and St Martin's Press
rejected ET
's commissioned and completed second sequel to Gone With the Wind, writing off the $230,000 advance which they had already paid her. qtd. in Lyall, Sarah. “Book sequel creates a new civil war”. New York Times, 3 June 1996, p. D7. D7 |
Residence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
has called Tuamgraneyfervid, enclosed and catastrophic. qtd. in Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 574 |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | She left it in her will to Margaret Mitchell
. It was never published. Literary historian J. Paul de Castro
used it in 1943. Castro, J. Paul de. “Laetitia Hawkins and Boswell”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 185 , 18 Dec. 1943, pp. 373-4. 374 |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | On the recommendation of Lady Antonia Fraser
, ET
was commissioned by St Martin's Press
to write the second sequel to Margaret Mitchell
's American classic, Gone With the Wind. Lyall, Sarah. “It’s hard to keep a good sequel secret”. New York Times, 4 May 1995, p. C1, C12. C1, C12 Lyall, Sarah. “Book sequel creates a new civil war”. New York Times, 3 June 1996, p. D7. D7 |
Textual Production | Jan Struther | This was probably the most that had yet been paid by a film studio for a first novel. But after the film grossed $8,878,000 JS
wrote, I got the worst contract of any author ever... |
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