Janet Montefiore

Standard Name: Montefiore, Janet

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Stevie Smith
According to Janet Montefiore in the ODNB this book is now recognized as a classic of 1930s writing in its subtle exploration of antisemitism, gender politics, and cruelty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literary responses Stevie Smith
Montefiore calls this publication a landmark in establishing her as a uniquely original poet.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literary responses Stevie Smith
Her reputation has been building steadily. Jeni Couzyn called her an original voice in poetry with no back-up tradition and no imitators, a performer of daredevil dance with poetic form.
Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
37
Romana Huk published a...
Publishing Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS wrote this novel at her new house, Little Doucegrove.
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980.
91
It was reprinted in 1983 with an introduction by Janet Montefiore .
Reception Storm Jameson
SJ was offered the award of CBE in 1979, but declined.
“The Refuseniks and the Offers They Turned Down”. Sunday Times, 21 Dec. 2003, p. 5.
5
Her books sold well in their time and were translated into Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Virago re-issued...
Reception E. J. Scovell
This volume was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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Janet Montefiore regrets the absence of EJS from Robin Skelton 's anthology New Verse, 1964, while acknowledging that it would be unfair to blame Skelton...
Textual Features Storm Jameson
Janet Montefiore has noted that in A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill Jameson included a rancorous portrait of Rebecca West in the character of Retta Spencer-Savage, a celebrated anti-Communist writer who has built her...

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Montefiore, Janet. Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History. Routledge, 1996.