Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, p. vii - xvi.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Nicola Beauman
judges this one of EMD
's best novels. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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
. |
| 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. 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. |
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