Brophy, Brigid. The King of a Rainy Country. Virago, 1990.
prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | During her first visit to the USA, ES
met Charlie Chaplin
, Greta Garbo
, and Marianne Moore
. A press party at the Gotham Book Mart
in New York was attended by ES
... |
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had kept his Maurice unpublished.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 | Brigid Brophy | BB
was awarded the London Magazine prize for prose in 1962 and the Tony Godwin Award in 1985. Brophy, Brigid. The King of a Rainy Country. Virago, 1990. prelims Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 155 |
Literary responses | Eva Figes | Edward Candy
's review in The Times asserted that EF
, in denying that women exist for the primary purpose of bearing children, was refusing to accept the biological difference between the sexes. She pointed... |
Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | According to critic Peter Parker
, Winterson published the book against the advice of her friends. It received bad reviews, and she apparently tried unsuccessfully to prevent its reissue later. However, as Fiammetta Rocco
writes... |
Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | This book received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize from the Book Trust
in the year of its publication. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes. 58 |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Reviews were mostly excellent. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 512 qtd. in Spark, Muriel. Reality and Dreams. Penguin, 1997. back cover |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 365-6 |
Publishing | Emma Tennant | ET
, who had been taken on in an attempt to avoid negative reviews like those that had plagued Alexandra Ripley
's sequel, Scarlett, 1991, finished the book four months ahead of schedule, but... |
Reception | E. Nesbit | This, with Harding's Luck, the book which followed it, were named by Gore Vidal
as his favourites among EN
's works. Vidal, Gore. “The Writing of E. Nesbit”. New York Review of Books, Vol. 3 , No. 8, 3 Dec. 1964. |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | The Scapegoat was made into a film adapted by Gore Vidal
, financed in part by Alec Guinness
and DDM
, directed by Robert Hamer
, starring Guinness and Bette Davis
. It was critically... |