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Education | Margaret Drabble | MD
has recalled how her father, newly demobbed after his wartime army service, patiently taught me to read from a primer called The Radiant Way. Later, Mary McCarthy
's The Group and Doris Lessing |
Friends, Associates | Hannah Arendt | HA
's journalistic and editorial work meant that she met almost everyone who belonged to the intellectual scene in New York, as well as those just passing through, like T. S. Eliot
. Those who... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Blackwood | CB
's first marriage was a period of intense socializing. She knew virtually everyone in bohemian as well as in fashionable London circles. The painter Francis Bacon
, a close friend of her husband's, became... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine Greer | In Bed with the English, which takes the form of a letter, declares its literary allegiances to be Anglo-American. It hopes to provide a straight-talking [Mary] McCarthy
-[Brigid] Brophy
rundown on the English... |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | This was, says Hazel Rowley
, one of those highly original novels that do not take off at first. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995. 270 |
Literary responses | Fay Weldon | FW
tried this too, before publication, on Louis Simpson
. He suggested it was a rip-off of Mary McCarthy
's The Group, and said that introducing eight characters on the first page was too... |
Literary responses | Margaret Atwood | MA
won her second Governor-General's Medal for this novel. Bibliographer John Meier
's collection of Governor-General's-winning novels includes a copy of The Handmaid's Tale inscribed from Atwood (Peggy A.) to Gwendolyn MacEwen
... |
Literary responses | Jan Morris | The Times Literary Supplement review opened by taking exception to Morris's claim that the flood of books about Venice had, by this period, dried to a trickle; but it accepted Morris's view that the best... |
Publishing | Sybille Bedford | She had already contributed an article on him to a volume edited by Julian Huxley
in 1965: Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963. A Memorial Volume. She later referred to her work on the biography as a... |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | This book was runner-up for the Booker Prize, by a whisker and a casting vote. The winner was The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
. The judges were Edna O'Brien
and Mary McCarthy |
Reception | Beryl Bainbridge | Reviews were excellent, but BB
was astonished when they treated this as a funny book. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (4 November 1978): 14 |
Residence | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
's first home of her own after graduation was a little apartment at 16 Charles Street, Manhattan, found for her by Mary McCarthy
. Marshall, Megan. Elizabeth Bishop. A Miracle for Breakfast. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 49 |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | Mary McCarthy
, HA
's literary executor, edited and published a handsome boxed set Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004. 470 “Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt”. Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Reviews Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004. xlviii |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | HA
's papers are mostly held by the Library of Congress
, with thought books which gathered material for published works, and some correspondence, at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv
at Marburg in Germany. Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004. xlvii, xlviii |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ
's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed... |