Nicola Beauman

Standard Name: Beauman, Nicola

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Kennedy
In the same year that her mother died, 1928, MK gave birth to her first child, Julia , who also became a novelist. Another daughter and a son followed in 1930 and 1935. Kennedy and...
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.
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Nicola Beauman
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 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...
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 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 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...
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 E. M. Delafield
Nicola Beauman judges this one of EMD 's best novels.
Literary responses Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD , who disparaged her own powers of invention and ear for dialogue, called this her only novel.
qtd. in
Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xvi.
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Nicola Beauman thought it a study in the shifting sands of social class, and a hymn...
Literary responses E. M. Delafield
Nicola Beauman judges that EMD succeeds in speaking to two different kinds of readers here: those who share the heroine's views of marriage and those who recognize the element of satire in them.
qtd. in
Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
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Maurice McCullen
Literary responses E. M. Delafield
Critic Nicola Beauman sees this as EMD 's most cruelly satirical novel.
Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Jenkins
The novel was criticised by some for its exclusively upper-middle-class reach—a view which was energetically countered by Rose Macaulay on a radio programme.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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The Times Literary Supplement welcomed with joy a novel where the...
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...
Literary responses Margaret Kennedy
Recent critics, such as Barbara Brothers and Beauman , have re-read the novel for its focus on the portrayal of women and their lives in fiction, to find it one of Kennedy's more substantive and...

Timeline

September 1998: Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded...

Women writers item

September 1998

Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded Persephone Books , aimed at reprinting in beautiful format forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Ochocka, Alice. “The Height of Spring”. Mslexia, No. 38, July 2008, p. 6.
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Texts

Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago, 1983.
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
Beauman, Nicola. “Elizabeth Jenkins Obituary”. The Guardian.
Beauman, Nicola, and Margaret Kennedy. “Introduction”. The Ladies of Lyndon, Virago, 1981, p. ix - xix.
Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xvi.
Delafield, E. M., and Nicola Beauman. The Diary of a Provincial Lady. Rpt. ed., Virago, 1984.
Kennedy, Margaret, and Nicola Beauman. The Ladies of Lyndon. Virago, 1981.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.