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Dedications | Catherine Carswell | She helped W. G. Fay
to write his history of the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre: An Autobiographical Record (1935), which emphasises the actors and those who managed the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Tweedsmuir | In 1935 the pattern of ST
's life changed when her husband
was created Baron Tweedsmuir and appointed Governor-General of Canada. From now on she was Lady Tweedsmuir, and for the next five years she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's Canadian years came to an abrupt end with her husband
's death of a cerebral thrombosis on 11 February 1940, not long after the outbreak of the Second World War. |
Friends, Associates | Alison Uttley | By the time AU
's mentor, Professor Alexander,
died (deeply upset about Hitler's rule in Germany), she had met another father-figure and important friend, the poet Walter de la Mare
. She also developed friendships... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Webb | MW
was a friend of critic Adrian Bury
and was close to Welsh writer and critic Caradoc Evans
, who met her in London and in whom she confided her hopes and fears. His widow's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Extended accounts of WMCN
have often been fictional. In Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry, 1835, written by Arabella Jane Sullivan
but edited by Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre
, her life story occupies... |
Literary responses | Mary Webb | Susan Tweedsmuir
later wrote that Gone to Earth had opened a new door to me, Tweedsmuir, Susan. A Winter Bouquet. G. Duckworth, 1954. 110 |
Literary responses | Elspeth Huxley | British Book News considered that EH
had drawn to good effect on an intimate knowledge of African landscape, politics, and race issues and displayed great narrative skill, though a little lacking in psychological subtlety. British Book News. British Council. (1957): 451 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's first publication after her husband
's death and her return to England was Canada, one of The British Commonwealth in Pictures series, a slim volume covering history and geography. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Author summary | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
, still Susan Buchan and married to a more famous author, John Buchan
, began publishing in collaboration with him. From their joint novel, published just after the First World War, she continued on... |
Publishing | Susan Tweedsmuir | Susan Buchan (later ST
) and her husband John Buchan
together privately published a colloquy on world politics OCLC WorldCat. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under John Buchan Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Textual Production | Susan Tweedsmuir | In July 1946 there appeared ST
's first edited volume of her late husband's work: The Clearing House, a Survey of One Man's Mind: A Selection from the Writings of John Buchan, with a... |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | Letters exchanged by John Buchan
with CC
and her husband are in the National Library of Scotland
. Her son carefully preserved tin trunks full of her manuscripts and papers, which he sorted through at... |
Textual Production | Susan Tweedsmuir | Susan Buchan (later ST
) wrote and published a number of one-act plays and adaptations, mostly dating from 1932 or shortly afterwards. These include The Little House, Christmas Time, 'Bromides', A Play... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susan Tweedsmuir | The opening proper of this volume invokes with some trepidation George Sand
's statement that there is nothing more tedious than the dregs of an old régime. Tweedsmuir, Susan. A Winter Bouquet. G. Duckworth, 1954. 20 |