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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Frances Bellerby | During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region
programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley
. John Lehmann
read one of FB
's poems on the Third Programme... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
contributed a perceptive British Book News. British Council. (1952): 343 |
Reception | Dorothy Bussy | DB
first wrote Olivia in 1933 and then sent the manuscript to her friend André Gide
. Gide found it not very engaging Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press. 344 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lettice Cooper | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | Another cousin, Rudolph Chambers Lehmann
(whose mother, also MMD
's aunt, was born Nina Chambers
), was a journalist and oarsman. He was on the editorial board of—and published in—Punch. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Rudolph Chambers Lehmann |
Wealth and Poverty | Margiad Evans | Money was always tight throughout ME
's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann
's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell
. In her introduction to Thackeray
's Vanity... |
politics | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
and her brother
were hounded by members of the press for information about Communist agent Guy Burgess
(who with Donald Maclean
had defected from the British Foreign Office to Russia). Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown. 475-7 |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's short story The Red-Haired Miss Daintreys was published in Folios of New Writing, edited by John Lehmann
for the Hogarth Press
. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson. 161 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | Their brother John
, the youngest of the family, came to wield great influence as a publisher. Rosamond's relationship with John remained close though sometimes stormy. She resented his over-idealization of their childhood in his... |
Occupation | Rosamond Lehmann | When in 1946 RL
's brother John
set up his own publishing firm, John Lehmann Limited
, she became a shareholder and director, and also reader and consultant, until the company collapsed in late 1952. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 256, 326 |
Textual Production | Rosamond Lehmann | They first had to negotiate the response to their idea from Lehmann's brother John
, whose own magazine, New Writing, was already in the territory. They were then horrified by the layout, design, printing... |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Auberon Waugh
likened A Sea-Grape Tree to pulp romance, The Times thought it unintentionally absurd, and Lorna Sage
called the main characters paper people. Thoughtful and positive comments from Elizabeth Jane Howard |
Travel | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
and her brother John
, along with her husband Leslie Runciman
and his family, went on a cruise of the Mediterranean in the Runciman private yacht. Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown. 72-4 |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | This was reprinted in 1951 by John Lehmann
in his Holiday Library
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