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Literary responses | John Galsworthy | JG
's literary reputation, established with his first Forsyte novel, was strong in the late Edwardian period and the early 1920s, but deteriorated later in the decade (though he remained very popular with the public)... |
Textual Production | Mavis Gallant | Despite this promising request, she received no news regarding the subsequent stories she submitted from Europe. While living in poverty in Madrid, MG
happened across one of her recently submitted stories, One Morning in... |
Friends, Associates | Pamela Frankau | Her aunt Eliza Aria
introduced the very young PF
to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike
and writers Michael Arlen
and Osbert Sitwell
. Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson. 133-4 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
Friends, Associates | Ford Madox Ford | Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown
after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells
, Joseph Conrad |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | In FinlandRF
met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 302 |
Literary responses | Zoë Fairbairns | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Frank Pike
, judged the novel ambitious yet unpretentious. Pike, Frank. “Catching Up: Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4003, p. 104. 104 Pike, Frank. “Catching Up: Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4003, p. 104. 104 |
Birth | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit)
was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an... |
Textual Production | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
wrote a play in collaboration with H. G. Wells
, though the date of their collaboration is disputed. Editor Steve Farmer
dates it to 1905, but EHD
herself writes in her autobiography that it... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ella Hepworth Dixon | In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith
, Margaret Kennedy
(particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim
, and Violet Hunt
. Authors who receive whole... |
Literary responses | Ella D'Arcy | H. G. Wells
reviewed Monochromes along with volumes of stories by Henry Harland
and by Henry James
. Dismissing Harland as a mediocrity and James for his style (which he likened to thorns, brambles, and... |
Textual Production | Emma Frances Brooke | Scholar Kay Daniels
notes that many of the ideas in this article predate by several years those espoused by H. G. Wells
, especially regarding the state support of motherhood. Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 153-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Frances Brooke | |
Reception | Annie Besant | The future suffragist Mary Gawthorpe
, encountering Karma about ten years after it was written, was profoundly affected. She felt that she sensed a reciprocal understanding, and read this with a different part of her... |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | SB
became a close friend of the artists Cuthbert
and Lady Eileen Orde
. Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 241 Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 244, 245-6 |
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