Victoria Glendinning

Standard Name: Glendinning, Victoria

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Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
The first story which EB completed was Breakfast, published in her first collection. She had not yet read the most respected short stories of recent years; her biographer Victoria Glendinning says she was very...
Textual Production Violet Trefusis
On 14 May 1918, four days after the end of her first romantic holiday with VT , Vita Sackville-West began writing her novel Challenge (titled Rebellion in its early stages). It is clearly based on...
Textual Features Violet Trefusis
The novel's action is set in Oxford.
Trefusis, Violet, and Victoria Glendinning. Broderie Anglaise. Translator Bray, Barbara, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
12, 22
There, Alexa meets Anne and quarrels with John over the truth of John and Anne's love affair and failed elopement. Alexa and John are reconciled...
Textual Features Rebecca West
This novel revolves around four meetings (spread over several years) between pianist Harriet Hume and politician Arnold Condorex, characters who come to represent opposing forces—art and politics, private and public life, femininity and masculinity.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys.
2, 6
Textual Features Edna O'Brien
Three of the stories in this collection, Clara, A Woman at the Seaside, and Mrs. Reinhardt, use sleepwalking as a metaphor for their heroines' desire to escape their mundane lives.
Imhof, Rüdiger, editor. Contemporary Irish Novelists. Gunter Narr Verlag.
152-4
Clara...
Textual Features Penelope Shuttle
The reviewer quoted above, Victoria Glendinning , saw Shuttle as an uncompromising explorer, digging away in the moist rabbit-hole of the subconscious, but unlikely to carry very many readers with her.
Glendinning, Victoria. “Blood sisters”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3907, p. 97.
97
Residence Elizabeth Bowen
After selling Bowen's Court she had lived briefly at Stratford and Oxford.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
270
There is some disagreement as to whether or not she later left Hythe again for London.
Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne.
3
Of her biographers, Allan E. Austin
Reception Violet Trefusis
Sackville-West and Woolf never read VT 's text: it did not appear in English until 1985, with Barbara Bray 's translation and Victoria Glendinning 's introduction.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
257
Glendinning, Victoria, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Broderie Anglaise, translated by. Barbara Bray and Barbara Bray, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
v, xvi
In a critical essay, Broderie Anglaise...
Literary responses Margaret Forster
The response of reviewers, including specialists in feminist biography, was enthusiastic. Victoria Glendinning in the Times welcomed a development she said she had been looking forward to: a biography offering sympathetic comprehension of the inner...
Literary responses Jane Gardam
This collection won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. It was also a New Fiction Society choice.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(23 January 1976): 77
Victoria Glendinning 's review in the Times...
Literary responses Jane Gardam
The TLS review by Victoria Glendinning found JG in this collection better at people than at plots, and dealing out more scrutiny and more punishment to women than to men.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(18 April 1980): 430
In...
Literary responses Rose Tremain
Reviewers divided over the question of how convincingly RT had impersonated her very young male hero. The Guardian reviewer admired the way that readers were led deep . . . into Lewis's consciousness, while some...
Literary responses Germaine Greer
A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books.
265-6
The Penguin paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope
Literary responses Fay Weldon
Reviews of the novel were mixed. Reviewers criticised authorial intrusions, question-and-answer dialogue, and role-typing, while praising solid construction, shrewdness, and authenticity. Victoria Glendinning in the Times Literary Supplementtraced the details about material objects and...
Literary responses Elizabeth Jane Howard
Victoria Glendinning wrote in a New Statesman review: Howard writes most confidently and touchingly at very close range, about momentary doubts, unspoken anxieties, fleeting perceptions, intense good moments and equally intense bad ones, all inextricably...

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Texts

Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Cousin Rosamund, Macmillan, 1985, pp. 287-95.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Sunflower, Virago, 1986, pp. 268-76.
Glendinning, Victoria. “Blood sisters”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3907, p. 97.
Trefusis, Violet, and Victoria Glendinning. Broderie Anglaise. Translator Bray, Barbara, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1980.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Broderie Anglaise, translated by. Barbara Bray and Barbara Bray, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Glendinning, Victoria. Jonathan Swift. Hutchinson, 1998.
Glendinning, Victoria. Rebecca West. Alfred Knopf, 1987.
Glendinning, Victoria. “Seeds of success”. The Guardian, p. Review 27.
Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101-16.
Glendinning, Victoria. “The gender test”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4470, p. 1339.
Glendinning, Victoria. “The Muswell Hill mob”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3889, p. 1199.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.