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Victoria Glendinning
Standard Name: Glendinning, Victoria
Connections
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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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (23 January 1976): 77 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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 |
Residence | Elizabeth Bowen | After selling Bowen's Court she had lived briefly at Stratford and Oxford. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 270 Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne. 3 Of her biographers, Allan E. Austin |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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