L. P. Hartley

Standard Name: Hartley, L. P.

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Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA 's personal Diaries 1915-1918, kept during the First World War, which had remained unpublished during her lifetime, appeared posthumously in print with a foreword by the novelist L. P. Hartley .
The...
Friends, Associates Lady Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia was also a friend of Viola Meynell and of Enid Bagnold , whose Sussex homes were close to that of the Asquiths during the Second World War. Thirkell, as well as Lawrence, Bagnold, and...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
Three of VB 's own poems appeared in the collection, which also included poems by Winifred Holtby , Robert Graves , Edmund Blunden , L. P. Hartley , Roy Campbell , and Louis Golding .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Literary responses Christine Brooke-Rose
The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found the regressive narrative disconcerting and tiring.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press.
38
Novelist L. P. Hartley , writing in the London Magazine, expressed the view that the technique was a misuse...
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
L. P. Hartley , reviewing Elders and Betters in the Sketch dated 23 February 1944, voiced a frequent response to ICB : that despite her anti-realistic methods, she came closer to portraying reality than did...
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
Of this novel ICB wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
190
They did, however, praise the book, especially in the case of reviewers who were also novelists, like Elizabeth Bowen , Pamela Hansford Johnson
Friends, Associates Penelope Fitzgerald
PF was a friend of L. P. Hartley and of Stevie Smith , both of whom she met when they contributed to World Review, of which she and her husband were editors. Her sudden...
Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
She planned to write something about Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop , which she felt to have been unfairly eclipsed by the much-heard-of Bloomsbury group.
Hill, Rosemary. “Making Do and Mending”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 18, pp. 9-10.
9
She also worked on but did not...
Literary responses Susan Hill
Critic Hermione Lee , reviewing the collection for the Guardian, praised SH 's tender attention to detail, and likened her to L. P. Hartley and Elizabeth Bowen .
Lee, Hermione. “Like Buttons in a Box”. Guardian Unlimited.
Friends, Associates Margaret Kennedy
MK also forged a lasting friendship with novelist and critic L. P. Hartley . She and her husband regularly invited Hartley over for dinners and visits, and he, in turn, allowed them to stay in...
Residence Margaret Kennedy
During the war years Kennedy felt London was too dangerous for her children and they therefore remained at Hendre. This arrangement meant that Kennedy and Davies spent the duration of the war travelling between Wales...
Friends, Associates Marie Belloc Lowndes
Apart from MBL 's established literary friends, there were many whose early writing she encouraged to particularly good effect: Graham Greene , Margaret Kennedy , Pamela Frankau , E. M. Delafield , and L. P. Hartley .
Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, pp. prelims, 1 - 3.
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Literary responses Edna O'Brien
Literary reviews were generally positive. The Times of London praised EOB 's gift of quick, sensitive observation.
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
(1960): 1012
In the New StatesmanV. S. Naipaul praised O'Brien for simply offer[ing] her characters, [who] come...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Pinter was highly productive as a writer of screenplays, beginning with The Servant in 1963. This film, adapted from a novella by Robin Maugham and dealing with an employer (Dirk Bogarde ) who is...
Reception Edith Sitwell
She wrote to L. P. Hartley about the ceremony: It will amuse you to know that as I advanced towards the Queen to get my decoration, the band played Annie, Get Your Gun.
Sitwell, Edith. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. Editor Greene, Richard, Virago Books.
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