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...
CM
is said to have liked this the best of all her published works.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006.
It was discussed on the BBC
programme The Critics,
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman, 1984.
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and later proved an important book for a future translator of Eberhardt, Paul Bowles
.
Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent, 1 Aug. 2006.
Textual Production
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...