JJ
's father, Denis Johnston
, was a boldly experimental playwright, as well as a novelist and war correspondent.
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Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen.
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He later remarried.
Dedications
Jennifer Johnston
She dedicated this book to her father
, with 54 years of love and admiration.It became a Fontana
paperback in 1992,
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and was adapted for cinema in the same year by Shelagh Delaney
.
Literary responses
Stevie Smith
Novel on Yellow Paper was an immediate critical success. Appreciation expressed in reviews by Naomi Mitchison
and Rosamond Lehmann
laid the foundations for SS
's friendships with these and other writers.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
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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.