In Paris after the Second World War she met a group of American writers there: Eudora Welty
, whom she judges the best writer among them, Truman Capote
, Carson McCullers
,
Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint, 2005.
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and Jane Bowles
Friends, Associates
Ruth Fainlight
Visiting Leningrad in 1965, RF
tried hard to engineer a meeting with Anna Akhmatova
, an upstairs neighbour of people she did meet. She is on terms of acquaintance with many poets writing in London...
Michael Holroyd
suggests in the Afterword to A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters—Absent Fathers, 2010, that scholarly interest in Vita Sackville-West
created a biassed climate for the reception of VT
. Whatever vessel set...
Publishing
Ruth Fainlight
RF
wrote an essay about her friends Jane Bowles
and Sylvia Plath
, which appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and was reprinted in Crossroads, the journal of the American Poetry Society
. Another...
Textual Features
Angela Carter
AC
's extravagant fiction combines many genres, conventions, and styles, and she looks for the hidden realities behind appearances, paying particular attention to sexuality and women's eroticism. Critic Linden Peach
sees important elements in her...