and received a more recent accolade from Terry Castle
as the most elegant English fiction...
Literary responses
Eliza Lynn Linton
Critic Terry Castle
calls this a strange, acidulous tale . . . one of her most fascinating and tormented works. . . . it remains, a century later, a mordant, rebarbative, yet peculiarly affecting work...
Literary responses
Colette
Critic Terry Castle
calls The Pure and the Impure a wonderful book, her favourite among Colette
's oeuvre.
Castle, Terry. “Yes you, sweetheart”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 3-8.
6, 8
Literary responses
Gertrude Stein
GS
was disappointed at the small enthusiasm the book generated when it was published. Only Marianne Moore
reviewed it favourably. Katherine Anne Porter
despaired of its length and density, but argued that to shorten it...
Literary responses
Gertrude Stein
Bennett Cerf
wrote in 27 March 1945 to tell her about the astounding success of the book: sales were over the 10,000 markand [t]he $2000.00 that [she] receiv[ed] from Collier's for use of parts...
Reception
Laurence Hope
Despite her immense popularity during her lifetime, LH
has not benefited as much as other forgotten poets from the resurgence of attention to women's writing. Her work is not included in the major recent anthologies...
Reception
Rose Allatini
Meanwhile the Times Literary Supplement saw the novel as well-written—evidently the work of a woman. The reviewer judged that as a frank and sympathetic study of certain types of mind and character, it is of...
Reception
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
, who began with negative comments about EB
, later developed admiration for her fine originality, always surprising, never rigid, flowing, juicier than Marianne Moore
who is her godmother.
qtd. in
Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 42-62.
Several stories in this collection focus on women's spiritual experience. The broken mirror in Phelps's The Lady of Shalott is that of a bedridden teenager whose drunken mother disabled her by throwing her downstairs. Jesus
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Texts
Castle, Terry. “Husbands and Wives”. London Review of Books, Vol.
29
, No. 24, pp. 10-16.
Castle, Terry. Masquerade and Civilisation. Methuen, 1986.
Castle, Terry, editor. The Literature of Lesbianism. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Castle, Terry. “Yes you, sweetheart”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-8.
Castle, Terry. “You better not tell me you forgot”. London Review of Books, Vol.