John Masefield

Standard Name: Masefield, John

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Textual Production Flora Macdonald Mayor
It appeared with a preface by John Masefield . The novel is written as a response to the social convention (for most an economic necessity) which bore on Mayor herself, that women's primary duty was...
Textual Production Ann Bridge
Some of her poems and sketches were sent at this time to the poet John Masefield , whose brother was a family friend. He advised writing a novel, but by that time AB had got...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
Planning a book about the poet John Masefield , MS visited him at his house on a freezing day, and heard him read his work.
Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research.
139: 229
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
197
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS published her critical biography John Masefield, with an introduction describing her visit to him in December 1950.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
8
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
197
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov , Hoffmansthal , Ibsen , and Strindberg , while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw , Yeats , Masefield ,
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
69
and other British dramatists.
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Reception Charlotte Mew
CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx.
xv
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
311
Reception Vita Sackville-West
VSW was one of those in the running for the position of Poet Laureate in succession to Robert Bridges in summer1929. She later secretly hoped to succeed Bridges' successor, John Masefield , and wrote a...
Author summary Kate O'Brien
KOB , twentieth-century Irish writer, was successively a journalist, playwright, novelist, essayist, travel writer, and biographer. She was, she said, influenced by the singing voice and by dance music. Masefield said, Don't despise dance music...
Literary responses Flora Macdonald Mayor
The novel established FMM 's reputation for precise use of prose,
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
60741 (4 October 1980): 8
received good reviews, and very nearly won the Polignac Prize.
Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan.
45
FMM was judged sensitive yet detached, firm and...
Literary responses Henry Handel Richardson
HHR 's husband recalled twenty years later how, although average consumers of circulating-library fiction may have been horrified, to young people interested in literary movements this book was a revelation: not merely a new kind...
Literary responses John Millington Synge
John Masefield in the old Dictionary of National Biographymentioned the Cuala Press publication as strange ironical poems, so like the man speaking.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Leisure and Society Margaret Kennedy
Poet Laureate John Masefield presided over the event, and gave a speech which MK admired. E. M. Forster also attended the dinner.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
127-8
Friends, Associates Ruth Pitter
RP knew T. S. Eliot well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and...
Friends, Associates Henry Handel Richardson
Harrow friends of the Robertsons included Irene Stumpp , an employee who cooked German recipes and exercised powers as a medium. The Getting of Wisdom brought HHR personal contact with such writers as John Masefield

Timeline

By late November 1902: John Masefield published Salt-Water Ball...

Writing climate item

By late November 1902

John Masefield published Salt-Water Ballads.

Texts

Masefield, John, and Flora Macdonald Mayor. “Preface”. The Third Miss Symons, Virago, 1980, p. n.pag.