Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, p. vii - xvii.
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| 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. |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | In connection with this story and with At Mrs. Lippincote's, Nicola Beauman
called her one of the great writers about childhood. Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago. 7 Jones, Amanda Jane. “The Sad Strangeness of Separation: Enuresis and Separation Anxiety in Women’s Wartime Fiction”. Women’s History, Vol. 2 , No. 4, pp. 24-8. 26 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 | Lady Cynthia Asquith | The volume was a Book Society
recommendation. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 325 |
| 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
. |
| 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 | |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
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