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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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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