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.
Colour illustration of Storm Jameson. She wears a yellow top and has light blue eyes. Her hair is auburn and wavy. The image was created as part of a Famous British Authors card series, published in London.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates May Edginton
ME was a good enough friend of both Storm Jameson and Ethel Mannin to be considered as a potential mediator between them when they quarrelled in late 1931. In the event, however, she was not...
Friends, Associates Noel Streatfeild
NS shared her Elizabeth Street flat with another close friend, Margot Grey , whom she met in 1948 and with whom she shared a dog (as she had previously during her adult life shared a...
Friends, Associates Dora Marsden
During the 1920s DM 's primary focus was her writing, which she continued mainly in isolation and under much mental and physical stress. However, she was assisted in this by Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach
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...
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, 1986.
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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...
Literary responses Laura Riding
Among many personal replies was one from Naomi Mitchison , who visited Riding to argue that women are not innately inside but have been made so by being kept out of public activities, that politics...
Literary responses Susan Miles
Storm Jameson thought the book so honestly written that it cannot be read carelessly.
Jameson, Storm, and Susan Miles. “Foreword”. Portrait of a Parson, George Allen and Unwin, 1955, pp. 5-7.
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A recent commentator, Peter Campbell , values the way that this book handles its material but finds its tone somewhat cloying.
qtd. in
Campbell, Peter. “Restoring St George’s”. London Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2003, pp. 18-20.
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Literary responses Susan Miles
This book appeared with very distinguished endorsement on its jacket. T. S. Eliot wrote that he found it a very poignant story.Storm Jameson wrote, Its simplicities are at a profound level. The theme is...
Literary responses Radclyffe Hall
A number of writers rallied in support of RH . E. M. Forster and Leonard Woolf drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw , T. S. Eliot
Literary responses Hope Mirrlees
In The Georgian Novel and Mr. Robinson (1929), Storm Jameson , writing against notions of modern literature as a barren terrain, cites as evidence of its richness and diversity the masculine, sensitive, and solitary genius...
Literary responses Q. D. Leavis
Fiction and the Reading Public was widely reviewed. In the Criterion of July 1932, T. S. Eliot commended its argument: A society which does not recognize the existence of art is barbaric. But a society...
Literary responses Lettice Cooper
Like Cooper's previous book, this too netted a flattering comparison to a nineteenth-century woman writer. Richard Church in John O'London's likened it to Charlotte Brontë 's Villette.
Cooper, Lettice. Fenny. Gollancz, 1968.
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The British Book News review...
Literary responses Olivia Manning
Storm Jameson called this novel a really accomplished piece of work and its author a real writer. The publishers used her words in advertising.
qtd. in
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
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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...

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Texts

Jameson, Storm et al. “Preface”. The Diary of a Young Girl, translated by. Barbara Mary Mooyaart-Doubleday, Constellation, 1952.
Jameson, Storm. Speaking of Stendhal. Gollancz, 1979.
Linke, Lilo, and Storm Jameson. Tale Without End. Knopf, 1934.
Jameson, Storm. The Black Laurel. Macmillan, 1947.
Jameson, Storm. The Decline of Merry England. Cassell, 1930.
Jameson, Storm. The End of This War. Allen and Unwin, 1941.
Jameson, Storm. The Georgian Novel and Mr. Robinson. Heinemann, 1929.
Jameson, Storm. The Green Man. Macmillan, 1952.
Jameson, Storm. The Happy Highways. Heinemann, 1920.
Jameson, Storm. The Intruder. Macmillan, 1956.
Jameson, Storm. The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell. Macmillan, 1945.
Jameson, Storm. The Lovely Ship. Heinemann, 1927.
Jameson, Storm. The Pot Boils. Constable, 1919.
Jameson, Storm. The Triumph of Time. Heinemann, 1932.
Jameson, Storm. The Voyage Home. Heinemann, 1930.
Jameson, Storm, and John Farleigh. The World Ends. Dent, 1937.
Jameson, Storm. The Wrtier’s Situation and Other Essays. Macmillan, 1950.
Jameson, Storm. Then We Shall Hear Singing. Cassell, 1942.
Jameson, Storm. Three Kingdoms. Constable, 1926.
Jameson, Storm. Women Against Men. Knopf, 1933.
Maupassant, Guy de. Yvette and Other Stories. Translator Jameson, Storm, Knopf, 1924.