Her daughter Antonia Byatt
, born in Durham on 13 April 1960, was the first Director of the Women's Library
“Inspirational Women”. ASHA.
before moving on in September 2007 to become literature director of Arts Council England
.
Literary responses
Elaine Feinstein
Antonia Byatt
, reviewing this collection for The Guardian, found it extraordinarily moving in its precision and focus, its evocation of a fine balance between presence and absence.
Byatt, Antonia. “Memorial to a marriage”. The Guardian, 5 May 2007, p. Review 18.
Review 18
Reception
Susanna Blamire
In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...