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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Pat Barker | |
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... |
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. 1, 58 |
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 | Margaret Forster | Carmen Callil
judged this the best thing that MF
ever wrote. Gorb, Ruth. “Margaret Forster obituary”. theguardian.com. |
Reception | Elizabeth Jenkins | Rosamond Lehmann
recommended EJ
's writing to Carmen Callil
for inclusion in the Virago Modern Classics series. Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | 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. Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. 9 |
Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | 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. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 393 |
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... |
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. 87, 148 |
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... |
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/. |
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... |
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... |
Reception | Edith Wharton | 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 |