Nicola Beauman

In connection with this story and with At Mrs. Lippincote's, Nicola Beauman called her one of the great writers about childhood.

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.Maurice McCullen

Critic Nicola Beauman sees this as EMD 's most cruelly satirical novel.

Nicola Beauman has called these some of the most remarkable letters of the twentieth century.John O'Connell has found them astonishing in their candour and lucidity.

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.The Times Literary Supplement welcomed with joy a novel where the...

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...

The volume was a Book Society recommendation.Roger Fulford , reviewing it for the Times Literary Supplement, situated it among a crowd of works looking back from difficult times to an easier and...

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...

Nicola Beauman sees the letters as a tribute to the behaviour of ordinary people in times of nightmare stress.

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...

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?)...

In the same year that her mother died, 1928, MK gave birth to her first child, Julia , who also became a novelist. Another daughter and a son followed in 1930 and 1935. Kennedy and...

Henry Whipple, who worked as a civil servant in education, was Dorothy's boss at the time. His work took them to conferences here and there, and meetings of the W. E .A.Nicola Beauman

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...

Having joined the army, Herbert Asquith had a spell at a training camp on Salisbury Plain before being posted to the Front in France. By August 1916 he was feeling as if he would...