Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Storm Jameson
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Standard Name: Jameson, Storm
Birth Name: Margaret Ethel Jameson
Nickname: Daisy
Self-constructed Name: Storm Jameson
Pseudonym: James Hill
Pseudonym: William Lamb
SJ
was a prolific novelist with an intense commitment to political causes, especially pacifism, anti-fascism, artistic freedom, and various women's issues. Her fiction is generally thought of as realist or materialist in its techniques, and often draws liberally on fact (from her own life, historical events, and characteristics of actual people), though she experimented with its shape and matter more often than has been recognised. She also wrote political and polemical non-fiction, journalism, essays, literary criticism, and autobiography.
Storm Jameson
called this novel a really accomplished piece of work and its author a real writer. The publishers used her words in advertising.
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
60
The Times Literary Supplement treated the novel as the...
Literary responses
Muriel Spark
British Book News began to cool wirh this novel: this time her central character is scarcely a sufficiently plausible figure to dominate the story as the plot requires.
British Book News. British Council.
(1960): 289
But Storm Jameson
found the...
Literary responses
Dora Marsden
DM
sent her book to trusted readers before and after its publication. Her former instructor Samuel Alexander
(who had published Space, Time and the Deity in 1920) advised against publication, telling her that the text...
Leisure and Society
Eleanor Farjeon
EF
seems never to have read the modernist male poets, Eliot or Pound or Auden; however, she did read and appreciate such women as Rosamond Lehmann
, Storm Jameson
, Katherine Mansfield
, and Virginia Woolf
.
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
181
Intertextuality and Influence
Amabel Williams-Ellis
In this text the husband and wife team set out to capture the flavour of life at Portmeirion, at a time when a damaging hydro-electric scheme was proposed for the region.It is written in...
Friends, Associates
Harriet Shaw Weaver
As editor, HSW
attempted to recruit Storm Jameson
for the paper, but Jameson unhappily could not accept a full-time position. She also began to acquaint herself with contributors, such as H. D.
, whom she...
Friends, Associates
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Friends whom HSW
regularly entertained at her weekly receptions in Gloucester Place included Iris Barry
, Helen Saunders
(one-time honorary secretary of Blast), Storm Jameson
, and others.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
119, 182-3
Friends, Associates
Pamela Frankau
PF
became well known to many more in this and later literary generations, not a few of them through G. B. Stern: Lady Colefax
, editor Sidney Dark
, and novelist Louis Bromfield
. During...
Friends, Associates
Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE
's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell
, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson
, a political mentor
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
The same year that she was diagnosed with cancer, 1946, one of Q. D.'s closest friends, Dorothy O'Malley
, died. QDL
, who remained stoic and unassailable through all the terrible misfortunes of her life...
Friends, Associates
Vera Brittain
VB
and Storm Jameson
became friends; their friendship was based on shared commiserations about the difficulties of combining their writing careers with raising children.
Friends, Associates
Naomi Royde-Smith
Another close friend of NRS
, J. D. Beresford
, a highly-regarded novelist, was also an important friend to Dorothy Richardson
, and a mentor and support to Macaulay as well as Royde-Smith, and such...
Friends, Associates
Rose Macaulay
In 1921 RM
was spending several nights a week in a room she rented in the large house of writer Naomi Royde-Smith
at 44 Prince's Gardens, Kensington.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
191
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins.