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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, Alice Paul
, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
, Elizabeth Robins
, Helena Swanwick
, Henry Nevinson
, Havelock Ellis
, John Galsworthy
, Victor Gollancz
, A. R. Orage |
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... |
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 |
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. 242, 3 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams. 25 Gates, Anita. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Screenwriter, Dies at 85”. The New York Times. |
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... |
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. 71 |
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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
married, as her second husband, the scientist and writer C. P. Snow
; their being both authors, she said, was never a problem but always a binding factor. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 121 |
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. 121-2 |
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. 40-1 |
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. 159 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
's husband, C. P. Snow
, a well-known public figure and since 1964 a life peer, died. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
death | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
died after several strokes (she had emphysema), nearly a year after her second husband
's death. John Halperin
's life of her husband gives the date as one day later. Halperin, John. C.P. Snow: An Oral Biography. Harvester. 269n Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Halperin, John. C.P. Snow: An Oral Biography. Harvester. 269n |
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. |