Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Leisure and Society | Rose Macaulay | She loved speed. She owned a car, and loved to drive fast (she was once convicted of careless driving after a car crash in which Gerald O'Donovan suffered head injuries), and she had always wanted... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Angela Thirkell | She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton
, encouraged her, and when she... |
Publishing | Angela Thirkell | About the time of her memoir Three Houses, AT
showed some friends and acquaintances a draft fiction entitled Three Sillies. E. V. Lucas
told her she had distinct talent although the typescript in... |
Publishing | Rose Macaulay | RM
published Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal, a work which Hamish HamiltonHamish Hamilton
had commissioned her to write in the Spring of 1947. Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 176 Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969. 142 |
Publishing | Jean Rhys | Before the book was published, and while her husband was suffering his final illness, she was, as always, financially destitute. By February 1966, her editor Diana Athill
, her publisher André Deutsch
, and publisher... |
Textual Features | Angela Thirkell | High Rising introduces the character of Laura Morland, a thriller-writer who does not take her art too seriously and who crops up in AT
's later Barchester series in one novel after another. Thirkell called... |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | Thirkell began writing this book late in 1934 (under pressure of anxiety because her first husband, James Campbell McInnes
, was back in England from Canada for the first time in years). To her publisher,... |
Violence | Jean Rhys | As their lives became more pinched for cash, JR
became depressed and physically abusive, battering Tilden-Smith and inflicting scratches, black eyes, and bloody wounds on his face. His principal employer, publisher Hamish Hamilton
, attempted... |