“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Charles Percy Snow
Standard Name: Snow, Charles Percy
Used Form: C. P. Snow
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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
... |
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... |
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... |
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. 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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
met scientist and novelist C. P. Snow, later Lord Snow
, for the first time in 1941, after they had already been corresponding on literary topics. Halperin, John. C.P. Snow: An Oral Biography. Harvester. 248 Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 81 |
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... |
Timeline
September 1949: PEN International held a conference in Venice....
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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.