Anthony Blond

Standard Name: Blond, Anthony

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Literary responses Jennifer Dawson
Anthony Blond judged that despite its potentially off-putting subject, the wit was so real and the content although so feminine, so persuasive that no publisher with literary pretensions could fail to accept this book.
Blond, Anthony. “Introduction [to <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Ha-Ha</span>]”. They Made Their Name, Anthony Blond, p. 199.
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Literary responses Jennifer Dawson
The Times Literary Supplement review praised the book for questioning the validity of forcing the abnormal person into the deadening cage of so-called sensible, sane behaviour.
Johnson, Marigold. “Things, Things, Things”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3176, p. 21.
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The same reviewer criticised this novel's secondary characters...
Publishing Jennifer Dawson
JD 's publisher, Anthony Blond , felt that the novel's subject, mental alienation, might not be attractive to readers, but his secretary (the firm's only employee at the time) said she would leave unless he...

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Blond, Anthony. “Introduction [to <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Ha-Ha</span>]”. They Made Their Name, Anthony Blond, 1968, p. 199.