Throughout this work SJ
glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing...
Textual Features
Ann Quin
Set in an unnamed town, which is clearly Brighton, the novel is, as Giles Gordon
describes it, a Graham Greene
thriller as if reworked by a somewhat romantic Burroughs
.
Gordon, Giles, and Ann Quin. “Introduction”. Berg, 1st Dalkey Archive edition, Dalkey Archive, p. vii - xiv.
ix
The first sentence—the...
Publishing
Christine Brooke-Rose
This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan
of Michael Joseph
—who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press.
128
Her choice of title was over-ruled because her publisher mistakenly...
politics
Rebecca West
Although she was against censorship, RW
objected to literature with no redeeming moral value.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
304
She left the Festival after four days, disgusted with its exaltation of homosexuality of the vulgarest sort, pornography, and drug-taking...