Edwin Muir

Perhaps because WM 's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband , and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time...

VW had been ill while she was writing this book and was acutely anxious about its quality: she gave the manuscript to Leonard to read with the brief of pronouncing whether or not it was...

The Times Literary Supplement provided another favourable review, basing its approbation on the persuasive character-drawing of the supposedly male author. Its comments had already been outshone by Gerald Gould in the Daily News...

SJ tended to disparage this series; she called Love in Winter unworked: the materials for a novel rather than a novel.Initial critical responses to None Turn Back were also mixed. The Times Literary...

Reviewers were pleased to see more fiction from Lehmann after nine years, and the book was popular, although not hugely applauded. Those praising it included Edwin Muir . There was much debate over the real-life...

Edwin Muir had called Thomas Griffiths and Parson Cope at its first appearance a little masterpiece of wit, poetry and fantasy.

Patrick Magee , Harvey Hall , Stevie Smith , Hugh Dickson , and Basil Jones were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats , D. H. Lawrence

Willa and Edwin Muir represented the Scottish division of PEN at the International Congress of PEN in Budapest.

WM and her husband hosted a Writers' Circle in their flat in Prague. The members of the Circle were young Czech writers, and discussions were often as much about Czech politics as about work-in-progress...

WM , a twentieth-century Scotswoman, wrote in fiction and non-fiction about gender inequality, patriarchy, and the repressiveness of Calvinism, but never defined herself as a feminist. She was alert to the devaluing of women's work...

RF has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore , A. S. Byatt , and Elaine Feinstein (who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the...

In 1938, EMM 's name appeared in an early number of Kriticky Mesicnik, a Czech literary periodical edited by Václav Černý (reprinted in 1972 and 1992), in a list of British writers including Rosamond Lehmann

Willa and Edwin Muir , neither of whom had ever left the British Isles before, moved to Prague.

Willa and Edwin Muir settled in a small cottage at Penn in Buckinghamshire, without eletricity, gas, or a sewage system; they did not stay long.

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to the Orkney Islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland (Edwin's native place).