She had fallen in love with House, a lecturer in English who was eight years her junior, and whom biographer Victoria Glendinning describes as brilliant, highly sexed, introspective, [and] susceptible—much too introspective and susceptible to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rosamond Lehmann
In the early stages of the turmoil which the Spanish Civil War brought into her life, RL
met and fell in love with Welsh writer Goronwy Rees
at the home of Elizabeth Bowen
, who...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rosamond Lehmann
Goronwy Rees
left RL
to marry a woman some twenty years his junior.
Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang, 1989.
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politics
Rosamond Lehmann
RL
made an admired speech. Other speakers included her current husband, Wogan Philipps
, her current lover, Goronwy Rees
, and the man who was to be her great love, Cecil Day Lewis
.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
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Textual Features
Elizabeth Bowen
The novel has two heroines: Portia, a fifteen-year-old, and Anna Quayne, wife of Thomas Quayne. Portia, Thomas' half-sister, comes to live with the Quaynes in their Regent's Park house (based on EB
's own London...
Textual Production
Henry Green
Rosamond Lehmann
and Goronwy Rees
had been instrumental in introducing Green as a Hogarth Press author.
Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown, 1969.