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death | Colette | She was given a state funeral on 11 August, the first Frenchwoman to be accorded this honour. A somewhat inaccurate obituary in the Times drew responses from both Violet Trefusis
and Margaret Crosland
. Trefusis... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Holme | He was thirteen years older than she was. He too had succeeded his father in his position, and his employer was Lord Henry Bentinck
, brother of Lady Ottoline Morrell
. The marriage was childless... |
Literary responses | Constance Holme | Margaret Crosland
observes that such strange and apparently disparate elements do not sound attractive, but that the unhurried air of CH
's narratives manages to make the oddest events seem unsurprising and meaningful, local and... |
Literary responses | Penelope Mortimer | This plot, while anything but in tune with contemporary feminist demands for the sexual liberation of women, struck a chord with readers who felt the maternal role to be devalued in modern life by feminists... |
Literary responses | Penelope Mortimer | US reviews were enthusiastic, though in Britain Auberon Waugh
decried the book as ego-maniac drivel. Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion, 2005. 174 Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 193 |
Literary responses | Jennifer Dawson | A more recent reviewer, twenty years after publication, oddly described the novel as pleasantly cool and quirky in feeling, Craig, Patricia. “In brief”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4282, 26 Apr. 1985, p. 479. 479 |
Literary responses | Margiad Evans | A writer to The Times after ME
's death said that in all her novels the atmosphere, the emotion, is more important than the story, and that essentially all her work was poetry. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (19 March 1958): 13 |
Publishing | Constance Holme | Late in life CH
wrote, it is not easy for a woman to be the simple and natural devotée of an art as a man can. I have had to be house wife, agent's... |
Publishing | Simone de Beauvoir | This translation remained standard for a long time: later re-issues include one from Vintage
in 1989 with an introduction by Deirdre Bair
, and one from David Campbell
in 1993 with an introduction by Margaret Crosland |
Publishing | Colette | Not till this year was Colette
's novel La Retraite Sentimentale (1907) translated into English (as Retreat from Love in a version by Margaret Crosland
). Norell, Donna M. Colette: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Garland, 1993. 143, 141 |
Publishing | Germaine de Staël | The autobiographical Dix années d'exil was published as Ten Years in Exile in 1821. A reprint of 1968, with an introduction by Margaret Crosland
, was warmly reviewed in The Observer. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985. 74 Lonchamp, Frédéric-Charles. L’Œuvre Imprimé de Madame Germaine de Staël. Suisse, 1949. 77, 96 Wynne-Tyson, Jon. Finding the Words: A Publishing Life. Michael Russell, 2004. 155 |
Reception | Constance Holme | |
Textual Features | Margiad Evans | Margaret Crosland
called this work non-factual. Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable, 1981. 117 |
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