Penelope Dell

Standard Name: Dell, Penelope

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Ethel M. Dell
The girl, called Gladys Olive by her birth mother, became Poppy, then Penelope Dell , who published a biography of EMD and her sister in 1977.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Literary responses Ethel M. Dell
The implications of homosexual paedophilia (whose existence Dell was almost certainly unaware of) caused merriment rather than scandal. Rebecca West published in the New Statesman a few years later an article entitled The Posh Horse...
Material Conditions of Writing Ethel M. Dell
EMD published eight volumes of short fiction, each one subtitled and Other Stories: The Swindler, 1914, The Safety-Curtain, 1917, The Tidal Wave, 1919; Rosa Mundi in Spring 1921 (including A Debt...
Textual Features Ethel M. Dell
The novel traces the great love of Frances and Arthur; Penelope Dell reads them as Ethel and her new husband , with the tyrannical Bishop of Burminster drawn from Ethel's sister Ella , his weak...
Textual Features Ethel M. Dell
The Silver Wedding interests Penelope Dell for its portrait of herself as a brattish, cocky thirteen-year-old.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Textual Production Ethel M. Dell
This novel is about 153,000 words long. Penelope Dell dates it as 1927.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Textual Production Ethel M. Dell
Her adopted niece and biographer Penelope Dell suspects some allegorisation of the situation between the sisters, since Ella was a dominating character.
Textual Production Ethel M. Dell
EMD published a novel, The Black Knight, whose prefatory poem her niece-biographer Penelope Dell quotes.
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Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Textual Production Ethel M. Dell
EMD published another novel, Honeyball Farm.
Penelope Dell calls this Honey Ball Farm.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.