Neighbours and guests of CADS
in Cornwall included J. D. Beresford
, Dorothy Richardson
, and E. M. Delafield
. Noël Coward
came for a miserable weekend, when he was ostracized by the family because...
Friends, Associates
Naomi Royde-Smith
Another close friend of NRS
, J. D. Beresford
, a highly-regarded novelist, was also an important friend to Dorothy Richardson
, and a mentor and support to Macaulay as well as Royde-Smith, and such...
Literary responses
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Times Literary Supplement remarked that MBL
and J. D. Beresford
, the first two authors in the series, were of sufficient stature to launch it effectively. After this, however, it criticised Lowndes for allowing...
Material Conditions of Writing
Dorothy Richardson
She was encouraged to write this book by J. D. Beresford
and his wife Beatrice
, by H. G. Wells
, and by the editors of the Saturday Review. The Beresfords introduced her to...
Occupation
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's...
Textual Production
Dorothy Richardson
DR
published Pointed Roofs, an autobiographical novel introduced by her friend J. D. Beresford
. It is the first volume of her well-known and influential series, Pilgrimage.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research, 1985.
212
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
425
Travel
Dorothy Richardson
Shortly after her extended stay in Sussex, DR
made the first of many visits to Cornwall, where she stayed with the writer J. D. Beresford
and his wife Beatrice
.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research, 1985.
209
Timeline
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Texts
Beresford, J. D. “Life Sentence”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1729, p. 174.
Richardson, Dorothy, and J. D. Beresford. Pointed Roofs. Duckworth, 1915.