Edwin Muir

Standard Name: Muir, Edwin

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Literary responses Henry Handel Richardson
The Times Literary Supplement provided another favourable review, basing its approbation on the persuasive character-drawing of the supposedly male author.
Child, Harold H. “Ultima Thule”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1407, p. 42.
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Its comments had already been outshone by Gerald Gould in the Daily News...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
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...
Literary responses Storm Jameson
SJ tended to disparage this series; she called Love in Winter unworked: the materials for a novel rather than a novel.
Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press.
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Initial critical responses to None Turn Back were also mixed. The Times Literary...
Literary responses Rosamond Lehmann
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...
Literary responses Willa 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...
Literary responses Margiad Evans
Edwin Muir had called Thomas Griffiths and Parson Cope at its first appearance a little masterpiece of wit, poetry and fantasy.
Evans, Margiad. The Old and the Young. Seren.
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Occupation Frances Horovitz
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
politics Willa Muir
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...
politics Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir represented the Scottish division of PEN at the International Congress of PEN in Budapest.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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Author summary Willa Muir
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...
Reception Ruth Fainlight
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...
Reception Edith Mary Moore
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
Residence Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir moved to from St Andrews to Edinburgh after Edwin obtained a job with the British Council , organizing activities and lectures for foreign allies housed in the city.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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Muir, Edwin. An Autobiography. Hogarth Press.
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Residence Willa Muir
After the war Willa and Edwin Muir moved back to Prague (where they had lived briefly in 1921-2) when Edwin was appointed Director of the city's British Institute (funded by the British Council ).
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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Residence Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir left Prague after about three years, shortly before the Communist Party , which had overthrown the elected government, closed Czechoslovakia's borders to foreigners or foreign travel.
The Communist Party controlled Czechoslovakia...

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