Nicola Beauman

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.The Times Literary Supplement welcomed with joy a novel where the...

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...

The volume was a Book Society recommendation.Roger Fulford , reviewing it for the Times Literary Supplement, situated it among a crowd of works looking back from difficult times to an easier and...

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...

Nicola Beauman sees the letters as a tribute to the behaviour of ordinary people in times of nightmare stress.

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?)...

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...

The book is dedicated to the editor and directors of Time and Tide. Its many reprints include those with introductions by Nicola Beauman and by Jilly Cooper .

US sales for stories soon followed. Harper's Bazaar published one extracted from A View from the Harbour in July 1947, and a year later, in September 1948, I Live in a World of Make-Beiieve (which...

With this publication, Kennedy began an eleven-year relationship with Heinemann . Virago republished the book in 1981 as one of its Modern Classics series; it included an introduction by Nicola Beauman . MK dedicated her...

Two monographs have been devoted to ET : one in the Twayne series by Florence Leclercq, another by N. H. Reeve , 2008. Leclercq 's analysis left a good deal to be desired. She was...

This book appeared with very distinguished endorsement on its jacket. T. S. Eliot wrote that he found it a very poignant story.Storm Jameson wrote, Its simplicities are at a profound level. The theme is...

The plot centres on a married woman's love for another man. Critic Nicola Beauman finds that EMD 's satirical tone in this and other novels encourages the reader both to sympathize with and to devalue...

After beginning her trip smoothly, Diana is surprised by a Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan, who kidnaps and rapes her. But EMH provides a troubling confluence of passion and male aggression, carefully blurring the line between...

Marny is Carew's counterpart because of her dismal experience of marriage. His wife was unfaithful; her husband was abusive (he struck her, the whole weight of his powerful body behind the smashing blow that...