Hilary Spurling

Standard Name: Spurling, Hilary

Connections

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Cultural formation Ivy Compton-Burnett
The family idea about Bishop Burnet was only one aspect of ICB 's father's creation of a background for himself which did not match the facts. Ivy grew up in the belief that her forebears...
Family and Intimate relationships Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB 's two youngest sisters committed suicide together by an overdose of veronal, to which they had both become secretly addicted.
The Feminist Companion wrongly gives the year as 1918; Spurling mentions different days as...
Family and Intimate relationships Ivy Compton-Burnett
Veronal had first been prescribed for Topsy's toothache. The secretive habits of all the sisters meant that no-one noticed that Topsy and Primrose had not in actuality been away for a two-week visit which they...
Literary responses Pearl S. Buck
Though missionaries in particular complained that both these portraits were distorted, in 1970s and 1980s China they were admired for complicating and nuancing the official, blanket vilification of missionaries that had obtained during Mao's lifetime....
Literary responses Pearl S. Buck
Spurling described Fighting Angel as Buck's brief, unsparing, beautifully balanced biography of her father .
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
44
Literary responses Pearl S. Buck
Spurling calls this plea for truth-telling on the topic of mental illness at once passionate and marvellously dispassionate.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
246
Literary responses Pearl S. Buck
Many reviewers greeted this as one of her best books, and for a while it revived her waning reputation.
Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
335, 336
Spurling said she uses her intensely creative faculty of memory to paint a clear...
Literary responses Pearl S. Buck
Spurling calls the plot absurdly unrealistic, yet acknowledges that its stylized symbolism works.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
234-5
Literary responses Pearl S. Buck
The Three Daughters of Madame Liang was chosen by the Book of the Month Club and by the Readers Digest (for a condensed version). Spurling located the value of this book and Letter from Peking...
Reception Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth was a Book of the Month Club choice, on the recommendation of Dorothy Canfield Fisher , who had sat up all night reading it.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
188, 193
It won the Pulitzer Prize, headed...
Textual Features Pearl S. Buck
She had just finished drafting her highly original memoir of her mother, but for placing in print she chose something more conventional: a description of life in Anhui from the point of view of a...
Textual Features Pearl S. Buck
Hilary Spurling calls this text, a favourite of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party , a hugely popular saga of resistance against a corrupt and unjust government by a band of thirteenth-century outlaws.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
189
Textual Features Pearl S. Buck
Hilary Spurling maintains that PSB put a good deal of her own personality into her portrait of the self-educated outsider who became a powerful woman and a reformer.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
52
(It was Tz'u Hsi who abolished...
Textual Features Ivy Compton-Burnett
The title reflects the situation of ICB 's generation, in which so many men had been killed in the first World War. The story is set in a large girls' school in a prosperous English...
Textual Production Pearl S. Buck
This book belongs, says Hilary Spurling , to the burst of autobiographical writing (including the lives of her parents and the novels The Time is Noon, and Other Gods) that followed Buck's final...

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Texts

Spurling, Hilary. “’Mt aim is to make people feel alive’”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 34-5.
Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.