Victoria Glendinning

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...

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.Clara...

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...

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...

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...

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

This collection won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. It was also a New Fiction Society choice.Victoria Glendinning 's review in the Times...

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. In...

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...

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...

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...

After selling Bowen's Court she had lived briefly at Stratford and Oxford. There is some disagreement as to whether or not she later left Hythe again for London.

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...