Carolyn Heilbrun

Standard Name: Heilbrun, Carolyn

Connections

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Cultural formation Barbara Pym
Her biographers and critics have devoted much comment to her personal and literary statements on women, marriage, and independence. Wyatt-Brown reads her return to her family home as a fairly conservative action for her place...
Cultural formation Barbara Pym
As for marriage, BP 's involvements with men as a student must have been to some extent influenced by social pressure to marry. She felt badly let down when Henry Harvey decided to wed another...
Literary responses Margaret Forster
The response of reviewers, including specialists in feminist biography, was enthusiastic. Victoria Glendinning in the Times welcomed a development she said she had been looking forward to: a biography offering sympathetic comprehension of the inner...
Literary responses Constance Garnett
Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence , a friend of her husband 's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,...
Author summary Constance Garnett
During the first half of the twentieth century, CG translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy , Gorky , and others, and...
Publishing Lady Ottoline Morrell
The volume Lady Ottoline's Album: Snapshots and Portraits of her famous contemporaries (and of herself), photographed for the most part by Lady Ottoline Morrell, was published, edited by Carolyn Heilbrun .
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
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Reception Mary Renault
Peter Wolfe and Carolyn Heilbrun both praise MR for brilliantly documented classical settings, and for making modern themes at home in ancient history. Heilbrun comments that Renault seems to have denied her ancient heroines the...
Residence Lady Ottoline Morrell
Evocations of Garsington Manor appear in various works of fiction by her contemporaries. In 1976 the critic Carolyn Heilbrun edited a collection of photographs taken by Lady Ottoline at her home.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
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A biographer, Miranda Seymour
Textual Features Ann Oakley
Carolyn Heilbrun was one of the contributors to this volume.

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Texts

Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. Reinventing Womanhood. Victor Gollancz, 1979.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin, 1961.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. Writing a Woman’s Life. Ballantine, 1989.