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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | The friends of EN
's last years, both old and new, included Marshall Steele
, Edward Andrade
, actresses Athene Seyler
and Sybil Thorndike
, and writers Noël Coward
, G. B. Stern
, Lord Dunsany |
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 |
Health | Hilary Mantel | While there she fell seriously ill. Her hair fell out, and grew back as merely fluff. By the time her brothers were born and her parents were moving apart, she was ill so much that... |
Performance of text | Margaret Kennedy | Kennedy co-wrote this play with producer Basil Dean
. Opening night in London was a smashing success and a production in New York followed shortly afterwards, to similar acclaim. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 81 |
Literary responses | Molly Keane | Like her first play, it again received admiring comparisons to Noel Coward
. |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | The Times Literary Supplement perceived the protagonist as a man who in youth sacrifices the spiritual side of his life to the material. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 54 Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, p. xi - xviii. xiv |
Friends, Associates | F. Tennyson Jesse | There they spent time with journalists broadcasters, actors, and writers like Alexander Woollcott
, Greta Garbo
, Alfred Lunt
, Lynn Fontanne
, Noël Coward
, Vita Sackville-West
and Harold Nicolson
, Sam Behrman
,... |
Literary responses | F. Tennyson Jesse | The Pelican also elicited positive reactions. Noël Coward
, for example, wrote to the authors that he had seldom been so moved by a play. It is perfectly written, perfectly constructed and perfectly acted. This... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | FH
remained continuously in print throughout the Victorian period, but her critical reputation and popularity waned before its close and died with modernism. She lingered on in popular memory as the author of popular recitation... |
Dedications | Irene Handl | The success of IH
's earlier novel encouraged her to publish a sequel to it, The Gold Tip Pfitzer. She dedicated it to Noel Coward
, from whom she said she had learned a... |
Occupation | Irene Handl | By the 1950s she was well-known, had branched out into the new medium of television, and was taking on roles of increased size and importance: for instance, on stage, the medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward |
Literary responses | Irene Handl | Almost all responses to this novel quoted on the cover of its 1985 reprint use somewhere the word original. The Sioux was welcomed at its first appearance by Noel Coward
and by Daphne du Maurier |
Friends, Associates | Radclyffe Hall | During the 1920s, RH
and Una Troubridge
were friends with a wide range of writers, actors, and artists, including Ida Wylie
, Romaine Brooks
, Natalie Barney
, Noël Coward
, Tallulah Bankhead
, and... |
Textual Features | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness contains elements of the roman à clef. Two of its characters, Valérie Seymour and Jonathan Brockett, are based on Natalie Barney
and Noël Coward
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 83, 269 |
Literary responses | Rumer Godden | RG
told her sister that this book had only a mention of an animal—one cat—hardly any flowers and not a single live child. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 240 |
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