Frank Swinnerton

EA made contact with Katherine Mansfield after discovering through Frank Swinnerton that Mansfield was a New Zealand cousin, formerly named Kathleen Beauchamp. A friendship ensued.

MA had other friends of her own age whose position in the intellectual world caused her to think of them as mentors, like the Oxford don Russell Meiggs . After her father's death she...

Michael Sadleir first took Jameson to the Thursday evening salons hosted by Naomi Royde-Smith at her Queen's Gate home. These gatherings were attended by Rose Macaulay , Arnold Bennett , Edward Marsh , and Frank Swinnerton

She had trouble getting down to this book, which she did in September 1937, then two months later bogged down again. Having great difficulty with Shrouds. Am in one of those moods when I wonder...

MA was almost aggressively upbeat about this book: Bloody good story though I say it. I like it. Whoever doesn't is barmy. . . . We're very sanguine. It had Heinemann , her regular...

Reviews were enthusiastic; many thought this a breakthrough both for MA and her chosen genre. Some of the warmest praise came from Frank Swinnerton : an unblemished delight . . . the writing full...

The Times Literary Supplement perceived the protagonist as a man who in youth sacrifices the spiritual side of his life to the material.Frank Swinnerton called the book a noble failure. At...

English reviews of Purposes were strongly divided. Frank Swinnerton in The Observer judged it to be of very high calibre, while Ralph Strauss in the Sunday Times was severely critical and The Spectator mounted...

Suzanne Raitt finds in this book a glorification of the spiritual uplift of war. Its first reviewers concurred in this, and approved or disapproved accordingly. Frank Swinnerton pleased MS by reporting on the form...

The Years, then, descends with The Pargiters from Professions for Women. VW was writing this book in the mid 1930s at a time when her now established reputation came violently under attack, often...

In a 1934 letter to Frank SwinnertonRM called this work that absurd juvenile, and (I hope) forgotten book.

She shared the works in the notebook with friends and family, and they found her youthful exuberance and earnest voice amusing. She lent the story to a friend, the writer and reviewer Margaret MacKenzie