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death | Angela Carter | On 23 February an obituary by Margaret Atwood
appeared in the London Observer, and one by Carter's friend and publisher Carmen Callil
in the Sunday Times. Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House, 1994. 1, 58 |
Friends, Associates | Anita Brookner | Her friends included her former teacher the art historian and spy-master Anthony Blunt
, publisher Carmen Callil
, novelist Julian Barnes
, who met her in 1984 when they were both on the Booker shortlist... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | In her final decade RL
's old friends found her difficult and demanding; but the rediscovery of her novels brought her the pleasure of young friends: publisher Carmen Callil
, novelist Anita Brookner
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Antonia White | AW
made several new friends during her seventies. They included Sorbonne professor Gabriel Boucé
, the German poet Fred Marnau
and his wife Senta
, the novelist Kate O'Brien
, and the actress Elizabeth Sprigge |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | She embarked on this book at the suggestion (in 1972) of Carmen Callil
, who wanted it for Virago Press
before the press was up and running. It became one of their opening titles. AC |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Elizabeth Bowen
published an appreciative review of this novel in The New Statesman and Nation on 11 July 1936. LeStourgeon, Diana. Rosamond Lehmann. Twayne, 1965. 87, 148 |
Literary responses | Margaret Forster | Carmen Callil
judged this the best thing that MF
ever wrote. Gorb, Ruth. “Margaret Forster obituary”. theguardian.com, 8 Feb. 2016. |
Literary responses | Antonia White | Callil
felt that this novel (a classic—funny, wonderfully written, which was pressed into her hands by Michael Holroyd
in 1977) was the first to cast light on her own convent upbringing in Sydney, Australia... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | DW
was an unacknowledged favourite of Ivy Compton-Burnett
and evidently of Elizabeth Taylor
too, since Taylor borrowed for her novel Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont from the opening of a story among Whipple's papers, which... |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | Anne Duchêne
, too, expressed admiration for this weirdly laborious, gothic story, calling it a sombre panel, a long and painful expressionist essay, with really only three—or two and a half—characters. She reserved her highest... |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | One outspoken admirer of CS
was Angela Carter
, who likened the experience of reading her to plunging into the mess of life itself'. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Pat Barker | |
Publishing | Iris Murdoch | She dedicated it to Arnoldo Momigliano
, an Italian-Jewish philosopher with whom she had had an affair, and had remained friends. She repelled an effort by Carmen Callil
(who had just succeeded Norah Smallwood
at... |
Publishing | E. H. Young | This was the first novel she wrote after moving from Bristol to London. It went on to a further change of title in the United States, where it appeared in 1927 as The... |
Publishing | Mary Wesley | When Virago Press
reprinted The Shutter of Snow by MW
's friend Emily Holmes Coleman
in 1981, Carmen Callil
(though she had just rejected what eventually became Wesley's first adult novel) invited her to share... |