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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. 107 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Kennedy | |
Publishing | Margaret Kennedy | |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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, p. vii - xvi. xii |
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, p. vii - xvi. x |
Literary responses | Naomi Royde-Smith | The TLS praised NRS
's skill in the management of a gripping story. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1859 (18 September 1937): 673 |
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... |
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 O’Connell, John. “’I have not got a bikini’”. The Guardian, p. Review 9. Review 9 |
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... |
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... |
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