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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... |
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 |
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. |
Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Nicola Beauman
judges this one of EMD
's best novels. |
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 | 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. Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, p. vii - xvii. xi |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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?)... |
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 | 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... |
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