Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Virginia Woolf | The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 371-3 |
Friends, Associates | Dodie Smith | In America, DS
developed close and enduring friendships with the writers John Van Druten
and Christopher Isherwood
. Isherwood dedicated his novel The World in the Evening to her. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 135, 139, 210 |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | Initially, the novel had a great vogue among adolescent girls, but others admired it as well. DS
's friend Christopher Isherwood
wrote a letter to her full of praise for the novel: Your tremendous strength... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Renault | Homosexuals in British fiction had been portrayed mostly as sick, funny, or both since the Oscar Wilde
trials (1895). E. M. Forster
had kept his Maurice unpublished. Radclyffe Hall
had run into trouble. Virginia Woolf |
Literary responses | Jan Morris | The TLS review, by Russell R. (Dai) Davies
, was titled Mr Morris changes trains (from Christopher Isherwood
's novel Mr Norris Changes Trains, 1935). It referred to the recent surgery as the deed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Mitchison | This indicates how the second world war turned her thoughts back towards the first. She noted the feeling of being on a small island of sand, cut off from past and future, and how wireless... |
Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | This novel was well received in England by Christopher Isherwood
and other readers. It was published in the United States in 1925, and a translation was published in France in 1929. Henig, Suzanne. “Queen of Lud: Hope Mirrlees”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 1 , No. 1, pp. 8-27. 15 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | CMC
therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis
, W. H. Auden
, Louis MacNiece
, Gypsy Rose Lee
, Benjamin Britten
, Richard Wright
, Paul
and Jane Bowles
, Christopher Isherwood |
Literary responses | Mary McCarthy | Edmund Wilson
, who encouraged her to write the first story, thought the book marvelous . . . and recommended it to |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Other authors with connections to Bloomsbury were drawn to |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson
. Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon
, W. H. Auden
, Christopher Isherwood |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Novelist Christopher Isherwood
became Lehmann's friend as a result of his admiration of this book. LeStourgeon, Diana. Rosamond Lehmann. Twayne. 74 Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 103 Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 139 |
Publishing | E. M. Forster | The genesis of this novel probably dates from a visit which EMF
made in September 1913 to the socialist and homosexual activist Edward Carpenter
, whose lifelong campaign against prejudice and inequity were an inspiration... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
's second contribution, Mrs Morris Changes Lanes, takes its title from Christopher Isherwood
's Mr Norris Changes Trains, 1935. Elderly Mrs Morris feeds her confidence and independence through her adventures in becoming... |
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