Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Literary responses | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 365-6 |
Literary responses | Margaret Atwood | |
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 |
Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | The novel's initial favourable reviews came from an earlier generation of authors, including George Moore
, A. E. Housman
, Thomas Hardy
, Arnold Bennett
, J. M. Barrie
, and H. G. Wells
... |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | EB
's friend Desmond MacCarthy
approached Virginia Woolf
to review the book, but she refused, having taken a dislike to Bagnold and assuming that she had enmeshed poor old Desmond. Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne. 9 |
Literary responses | Henry Handel Richardson | Early reviews mixed horror (a libel on girlhood, the result of a curious mania for telling the literal truth regardless of the ordinary canons as to what is and what is not fitting for... |
Literary responses | G. B. Stern | She was much comforted by a letter from H. G. Wells
in which he praised this book. Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell. 7 |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | Responses to the novel were mixed. The feminist journal Time and Tide judged it a really important book, a mark in feminist history as well as a fine literary feat. Here at last is a... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's publisher, Hutchinson
, blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 214 |
Literary responses | Arnold Bennett | This novel received immediate praise in the press, though sales of the small print-run took a long time to pick up. Enthusiastic reviewers included such different writers as Walter de la Mare
(in the Times... |
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)... |
Literary responses | Rebecca West | The wit and audacity with which RW
attacked literary figures in her Freewoman articles—from Mary Augusta Ward
's complete lack of sense West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA. 15 West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA. 64 |
Literary responses | Arnold Bennett | Margaret Drabble
began work on her biography of AB
(published in 1974) in a partisan spirit, because she felt Bennett was seriously undervalued. She was, she wrote, surprised to find she enjoyed and respected... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | H. G. Wells
, reviewing this work, wrote that DR
had probably carried impressionism in fiction to its furthest limit. He considered that her percepts never become concepts, and that her heroine is not a... |
Literary Setting | Dorothy Richardson | Hypo Wilson's seaside home, modelled after a house that H. G. Wells
had in Kent, is another of the novel's settings. Here, Miriam's writer friend Hypo is portrayed in the present as she views... |
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