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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Ethel Wilson | Through parties hosted by her eventual publisher, the Macmillan Company
, EW
also met Morley Callaghan
, who admired her writing. Other writers she knew included John Gray
, A. J. M. Smith
, Robert Weaver |
Instructor | Rose Tremain | Her mother persisted in calling UEA that ropey university. Tremain, Rose. Rosie. Scenes from a Vanished Life. Chatto, 2018. 193 Tremain, Rose. Rosie. Scenes from a Vanished Life. Chatto, 2018. 121 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction and Mrs Brown opens with a long quotation in which Woolf
relates how she observed this shabby, immaculate old lady on a train from Richmond to London, and saw her as the character... |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | More recently, writers citing Mansfield's importance to them have included Brigid Brophy
, Angus Wilson
, and Canadian Alice Munro
. Janice Kulyk Keefer
's Thieves: A Novel of Katherine Mansfield, 2004, presents a... |
Literary responses | Iris Murdoch | For a first publication, this garnered much positive comment. While The Guardian, Sir John Betjeman
in the Daily Telegraph, and Angus Wilson
in the Observer were comparatively unappreciative, Kingsley Amis
in The Spectator... |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Novelist Angus Wilson
, in the course of an otherwise notably fair and sensitive review for The Observer, said that VW
's her reputation had been overestimated. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 220 |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | The book received mixed reviews, the most damning in the New York Review of Books. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 319 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
wrote amusingly of the horror of appearing on a television programme about books, filmed at Birmingham: sitting on spindly chairs under dazzling lights with other participants (Angus Wilson
, whom she liked... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bowen | This collection, with an introduction by Angus Wilson
, was reprinted as a Penguin Modern Classic in 1983. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Reception | Rumer Godden | Reviewers enthused over RG
's narrative style. The book was short-listed for the Booker Prize; Margaret Drabble
(biographer of Angus Wilson
, who chaired the judges) suggests that Wilson wanted it to win. Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999. 287 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bowen | It is set partly during the Blitz in London (where Bowen was living in Regent's Park, whose roses and spacious vistas provide the opening scene, and partly in the English home counties at an... |
Textual Features | Shena Mackay | |
Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | MD
published Angus Wilson
: A Biography. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Novels adapted by MW
are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells
, aired on Radio 4
in 1984 and runner-up... |