Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
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Isobel English
Standard Name: English, Isobel
Used Form: June Braybrooke
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Olivia Manning | OM
's mother, Olivia (Morrow) Manning
, was the child of a bullying pub-keeper of Northern Irish origins and woman from a Mississippi plantation who felt that her marriage had brought her down in the... |
| Friends, Associates | Muriel Spark | She acquired new literary friends after her religious conversion, such as Allen Tate
, Neville
and June Braybrooke
(the latter of whom wrote as Isobel English
, and titled two of her novels at Spark's... |
| Friends, Associates | Olivia Manning | OM
's friends included a number of fellow-writers: William Gerhardi
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she had first met before the war, at a party given by Rose Macaulay
, and whose work she deeply admired),... |
| Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Storm Jameson
called this novel a really accomplished piece of work and its author a real writer. The publishers used her words in advertising. |
| Publishing | Olivia Manning | This authoritative information comes from her biography by Neville
and June Braybrooke
. Different versions put her at sixteen and the number of lurid mystery serials at four: she liked to keep secret both her... |
| Textual Features | Olivia Manning | Isobel English
finds in the style of this novel a noticeable masculine impersonality, which was to become a hallmark of [OM
's] work. English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Wind Changes, Virago, 1988, p. v - xvi. xi |
| Textual Production | Olivia Manning | |
| Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | MW
has specialized in adapting and abridging novels for radio. Between 1980 and 2004 she adapted a wide array of fiction by women writers, including works by Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
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