Charles Percy Snow

Standard Name: Snow, Charles Percy
Used Form: C. P. Snow

Connections

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Travel Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ crossed the Atlantic for the first time with her husband, C. P. Snow ; they made landfall at Quebec after passing through the tail of a hurricane.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
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Travel Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ and her husband, C. P. Snow , travelled for the first time to Moscow.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kathleen Nott
KN approvingly cites Mary Warnock for discerning and hailing a tendency among moral philosophers to address the complexities of actual choice, and actual decisions, thus making moral philosophy more difficult, perhaps much more embarrassing...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susan Hill
SH gives free rein to her enjoyment of list-making. Writers mentioned (not in a list or lists) include E. Nesbit (read by Noel Coward on his deathbed), Pamela Hansford Johnson and her husband C. P. Snow
Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ published short stories in periodicals, and many of them were included in anthologies such as Stories of the Forties, 1945 (edited by Reginald Moore and Woodrow Wyatt ), and the first and third...
Residence Pamela Hansford Johnson
Having begun their married life in Hyde Park Crescent, PHJ and C. P. Snow (her second husband) moved to an old, half-timbered house in the main street of Clare in Suffolk.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
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Reception Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ herself had such doubts about the quality of this novel that she would have burned the manuscript if her husband had not intervened.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
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British Book News, however, praised its remarkably human and...
Performance of text Pamela Hansford Johnson
A joint dramatic adaptation by PHJ and her husband , The Public Prosecutor (written by them from Marguerite Alexieva 's translation of the Bulgarian of Georgi Dzhagarov ), was produced at Hampstead Theatre Club .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Literary responses Pamela Hansford Johnson
Wendy Pollard , who published a biography of her in 2014, was admiringly enthusiastic about PHJ 's writing; Tessa Hadley , who reviewed the biography, held a much lower opinion. Johnson's style, wrote Hadley, was...
Literary responses Olivia Manning
Growing Up was praised in print by Elizabeth Bowen and privately by C. P. Snow . The Times Literary Supplement found the stories distinguished for both their clarity and their good writng but marred by...
Literary responses Sylvia Pankhurst
The book was well received, and enhanced SP 's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw praised it in a speech on the BBC in which he compared SP to Joan of Arc ...
Literary responses Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in earlier 1979, a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1983, and a CBE in 1998.
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
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Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
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Gates, Anita. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Screenwriter, Dies at 85”. The New York Times.
She attracted less critical attention in...
Intertextuality and Influence Pamela Hansford Johnson
This is a satirical novel set on a US campus—though not, PHJ insists, embodying any identifiable place or people. The title, from Shakespeare 's Midsummer Night's Dream, suggests that the campus of the story...
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
Friends, Associates Susan Hill
While studying at King's CollegeSH , an aspiring writer, wrote to novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson and her writer husband C. P. Snow for advice on the profession. The couple answered her letters and even...

Timeline

September 1949: PEN International held a conference in Venice....

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September 1949

PEN International held a conference in Venice. Delegates included W. H. Auden , C. P. Snow , Pamela Hansford Johnson , and Cecily Mackworth .

May 1959: C. P. Snow gave the year's Rede Lecture at...

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May 1959

C. P. Snow gave the year's Rede Lecture at Cambridge University : The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.

Texts

Jennings, Elizabeth et al. “Letters to the Editor: Future of Radio”. Times, p. 11.