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
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.
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
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...
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.
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
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...
Literary responses
Olivia Manning
In 1978 OM
was sued by surviving relations of Sir Walter Smart
, the original of a character in the novel who is shown in a disturbing and memorable scene attempting to feed the dead...
Literary responses
Eudora Welty
Victoria Glendinning
, reviewing for the New York Times, wrote that in this invigorating selection, EWconstantly touches the painful place where literary critic and creative writer meet; she apparently finds the relation...
Literary responses
Flora Macdonald Mayor
Critics have often bracketed The Third Miss Symons and The Rector's Daughter together as FMM
's masterpieces, in their terse prose style and resistance to stereotypes of spinsterhood. Victoria Glendinning
, reviewing Oldfield's life of...
Literary responses
Barbara Pym
This became BP
's most widely-reviewed text, and received a mixed reception. Robert Liddell
was again outraged, calling this a dreadful book which had only been made possible by the betrayal of Pym's friends in...
Hill, Rosemary. “No False Modesty”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 20, pp. 25-6.
26
The poets of the Movement were famously dismissive of ES
. Al Alvarez
published a notorious and...
Literary responses
Alison Fell
Victoria Glendinning
in the Times Literary Supplement (in AF
's only review to date in that prestigious journal) gave a muted welcome to this collection. To Fell's expressed desire to write ourselves some decent parts...
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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. 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.