Carmen Callil

The idea was that AW should write the introduction herself. The effort to write it plunged her, said Carmen Callil , in pain so great . . . it twisted her body. Callil wrote...

EW 's literary career was achieved in face of the indifference or disapproval of her relations, who felt that to publish was to lose caste. In 1923 EW was awarded an Honorary DLitt by Yale University

Rosamond Lehmann recommended EJ 's writing to Carmen Callil for inclusion in the Virago Modern Classics series.

Carmen Callil , editor of Virago Press , approached Adrian House , RL 's editor at Collins , about re-issuing her work: he repelled this suggestion, condemning Virago as fairly pronounced feminists.

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...

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...

PB says that one stage she threw away the manuscript of this novel in despair, but her husband rescued it from the bin. She said she felt the absence of models for writing fiction...

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...

At the request of Carmen Callil of Virago Press and Chatto and Windus , RL put together a collection of captioned photographs that was published as Rosamond Lehmann's Album.

Elizabeth Bowen published an appreciative review of this novel in The New Statesman and Nation on 11 July 1936.Ralph Straus and Cecil Day Lewis were also lavish with their praise. Q. D. Leavis

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...

One outspoken admirer of CS was Angela Carter , who likened the experience of reading her to plunging into the mess of life itself'. She strongly recommended Stead's work for re-issuing in the Virago Modern...

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...

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...

Carmen Callil judged this the best thing that MF ever wrote.