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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John
and Susan Buchan
, and it was through them that she... |
Friends, Associates | Antonia Fraser | Family friends and frequent visitors to the Pakenham household included J. M. Keynes
, William Beveridge
(whom AF
's father had assisted in plans for the postwar Welfare State), Hugh Gaitskell
, and (particularly good... |
Friends, Associates | Betty Miller | She made literary friends early: Montagu Slater
, St John Ervine
, and Isaiah Berlin
. Through the Parisian family friends Charlotte
and Simone Richard
, she met the French writer Francis Ponge
. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii. viii-x |
Health | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
suffered from recurrent bouts of bronchitis and a chronic smoker's cough. In 1972, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent radium treatment. She lost her voice and had considerable difficulty breathing. She was... |
Reception | Anna Akhmatova | AA
arrived at Oxford for the conferring of a D.Litt. degree (at the instigation in part of Isaiah Berlin
); at the ceremony she was called the the Russian Sappho. Feinstein, Elaine. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005. 272 Haight, Amanda. Anna Akhmatova : A Poetic Pilgrimage. Oxford University Press, 1976. 189 |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | AA
composed a poem which became the first in the cycle entitled Cinque, about a night talking with the young Isaiah Berlin
(then recently posted to the British Embassy in Moscow), who brought her... |
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