Victoria Glendinning

A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages. The Penguin paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

VSW became a debutante, entering the ritual season of fashionable parties which would launch her in society.

The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter, and likens it to the Reynolds painting, The Three Graces Decorating a Statue of Hymen...

According to Vita Sackville-West's biographer Victoria Glendinning , DW in her later years (from about 1940) was frequently blind drunk, often outrageously so in public.

ES had received crucial support from Rootham in establishing her life and writing; she returned the support both financially and emotionally during Rootham's ultimately unsuccessful struggles to make a career as a singer. In...

At thirteen VSW began attending a small day school run by Helen Wolff (whose name is variously spelled in various sources) in South Audley Street, off Park Lane. The staff were mostly male. Vita...

Her biographer Victoria Glendinning believes that her Anglicanism was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support...

According to biographer Victoria Glendinning , ES wrote in her later life: I was unpopular with my parents from the moment of my birth. She felt that she was a changeling, thought her...