DW
's Someone at a Distance, her final novel and her only one not set in or around Blackburn or Nottingham, is seen by Nicola Beauman
as her most important book.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
Lady Cynthia Asquith
This volume contained a selection of what LCA
had written during these years. Her family very nearly decided to cut, as too personal and harrowing, a passage about the grief of her sister-in-law Lady Violet (Letty) Charteris
Textual Production
Ann Bridge
Nicola Beauman
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that AB
's writing (under the pseudonym she chose for the sake of the concealment necessary for a Foreign Office wife) began with articles, poems...
Textual Features
E. M. Hull
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...
Textual Features
E. M. Hull
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...
Textual Features
E. M. Delafield
The plot centres on a married woman's love for another man.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Critic Nicola Beauman
finds that EMD
's satirical tone in this and other novels encourages the reader both to sympathize with and to devalue...
Reception
Elizabeth Taylor
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...
Reception
Susan Miles
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...
Publishing
Elizabeth Taylor
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...
Publishing
Margaret Kennedy
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...
Publishing
E. M. Delafield
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
.
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, p. vii - xvii.
xii
Literary responses
Elizabeth Taylor
Nicola Beauman
has called these some of the most remarkable letters of the twentieth century.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
xv
John O'Connell
has found them astonishing in their candour and lucidity.
O’Connell, John. “’I have not got a bikini’”. The Guardian, p. Review 9.
Review 9
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.
107
The Times Literary Supplement welcomed with joy a novel where the...
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.