OM
's biographers note that a number of reference sources make no mention of this novel. At round about the same date she was distressed to find herself omitted from Who's Who in Twentieth Century...
Literary responses
Laura Riding
Of reviewers, Roy Fuller
registered Riding's dazzling intellectual gifts, but went on to concentrate on her muse relationship with Graves. Martin Seymour-Smith
was more deliberately offensive in his accusations of megalomania.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
421-2
A review for...
Literary responses
Laura Riding
LR
always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article...
Literary responses
Elaine Feinstein
The short notice in British Book News, by Martin Seymour-Smith
, maintained that EF
had not yet fulfilled her promise, but that this was her best book so far.
British Book News. British Council.
(1976): 708
Literary responses
Laurence Hope
A number of evaluations of Hope's work appeared at her death. Thomas Hardy
's obituary for her, printed in the Athenæum, praised the tropical luxuriance and Sapphic
fervour of The Garden of Káma...
Friends, Associates
Laurence Hope
They met at the house of Blanche
and Montague Crackanthorpe
. Blanche Crackanthorpe published an article in 1895 which criticised the short story Theodora: A Fragment by LH
's sister Victoria Cross.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 135. Gale Research.
135 under Victoria Cross
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Texts
Seymour-Smith, Martin. Hardy. Bloomsbury, 1994.
Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson, 1996.