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Dedications | Elizabeth Jane Howard | She went back to writing stories because the shorter form seemed more compatible with the life she was leading while in charge of a large family establishment in the country. She had also lost confidence... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Pym | Rupert Gleadow
cared about BP
a great deal, but their romance was an experience which she chose to downplay in her memory and writing. Her long, unsuccessful pursuit of Henry Harvey
, who both attracted... |
Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Liddell was to remain one of ICB
's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | Authors BP
, Mary Renault
, and Elizabeth Taylor
attended a party in Athens given by Pym's longtime friend the novelist and critic Robert Liddell
. Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Holt, Hazel and Hilary PymEditors , Macmillan, 1984. 227 |
Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | After Jourdain's death, ICB
's circle of friends included George Furlong
, Rex Brandreth
, Barbara
and Walter Robinson
, Soame Jenyns
, Elizabeth Taylor
, Sonia Orwell
(widow of the writer George Orwell), Australian-born... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | BP
wrote steadily throughout her life, regardless of changes in occupation. One of the benefits of her first publication, Some Tame Gazelle, in 1950 was the introduction of various authors into her personal and... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen
and Natasha Spender
, Alec Waugh
, Margaret Lane
, Malcolm Sargent
, and Joyce Grenfell
. She also met Cyril Connolly
, Olivia Manning
, Stevie Smith |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | SW
puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Whipple | DW
was an unacknowledged favourite of Ivy Compton-Burnett
and evidently of Elizabeth Taylor
too, since Taylor borrowed for her novel Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont from the opening of a story among Whipple's papers, which... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ethel M. Dell | Taylor
's romantic-novelist heroine numbers EMD
among her models, and quotes this passage with enthusiasm. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | Most of the novel is spent uncovering truths about these two major characters: Heather, who seeks knowledge about her birth father (and enters briefly into rivalry with her mother, Julia, over the same man), and... |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | This book evoked a double-edged response from Ivy Compton-Burnett
who, writing to Elizabeth Taylor
, said: It really is full of very good descriptions. Quite excellent descriptions. I don't know if you care for descriptions... |
Literary responses | Betty Miller | Her Times obituary might be regarded as damning her novels with faint praise. It called her essentially a feminine novelist—using the epithet with no derogatory connotation—applying her talent to sensitive explorations of feeling. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (27 November 1965): 10 |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Printed praise came from Stevie Smith
and Raymond Mortimer
among others. Elizabeth Taylor
noticed how the reviewers' imagery harped on weapons: rapiers, axes, stilettos, knives and grenades. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 213 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively
wrote, I am always surprised that the... |