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Family and Intimate relationships | Sir J. M. Barrie | Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch
(who was later the fiancé of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
married future businessman Clare Robinson
, whom she had met the year before when he was still an undergraduate. Nicola Beauman
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says Clare Robinson was a businessman... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Bridge | At that time the Foreign Office, working in London, was distinct from the Diplomatic Service
, working abroad. It was not until after the First World War that Owen O'Malley became a diplomat overseas. He... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
's mother, Mary
, Lady Wemyss, was born a Wyndham, a descendent of the writer Félicité, Mme de Genlis
, and of her royal lover Philippe Egalité
, Duc d'Orléans (who was also father... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Kennedy | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Whipple | Henry Whipple, who worked as a civil servant in education, was Dorothy's boss at the time. His work took them to conferences here and there, and meetings of the W. E .A. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 84 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Having joined the army, Herbert Asquith
had a spell at a training camp on Salisbury Plain before being posted to the Front in France. By August 1916 he was feeling as if he would... |
Literary responses | Mollie Panter-Downes | This novel was much less well received than MPD
's first. Critic Nicola Beauman
finds it remarkable for the fact that the protagonist acquires a social conscience after coming into money, and for the lyrical... |
Literary responses | Mollie Panter-Downes | Nicola Beauman
sees the letters as a tribute to the behaviour of ordinary people in times of nightmare stress. Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xvi. xii |
Literary responses | Ann Bridge | A British Foreign Office
official warned that what he called the uniform unpleasantness of the Spanish characters (which was news to her: was he responding to the fact that people behave badly in extreme circumstances?)... |
Literary responses | Mollie Panter-Downes | On the publication of London War NotesNoël Coward
wrote to tell MPD
that her evocation of the city in wartime, nearly thirty years in the past, was so well done that he felt sodden... |
Literary responses | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
, who disparaged her own powers of invention and ear for dialogue, called this her only novel. Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xvi. x |
Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Nicola Beauman
judges this one of EMD
's best novels. |
Literary responses | Naomi Royde-Smith | |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | At Mrs. Lippincote's set the tone for reception of ET
by attracting very mixed reviews. She treasured praise from L. P. Hartley
, Richard Church
(who was reminded of Woolf
's Mrs Dalloway), and... |