Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | 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. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986. 217 |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Margery Allingham | 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
. Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 93-5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margery Allingham | 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... |
Literary responses | May Sinclair | Suzanne Raitt
finds in this book a glorification of the spiritual uplift of war. qtd. in Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 167 |
Literary responses | Mary Renault | English reviews of Purposes were strongly divided. Frank Swinnerton
in The Observer judged it to be of very high calibre, qtd. in Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 74 |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | The Times Literary Supplement perceived the protagonist as a man who in youth sacrifices the spiritual side of his life to the material. qtd. in Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980. 54 qtd. in Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, 1984, p. xi - xviii. xiv |
Literary responses | Margery Allingham | 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. qtd. in Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 90 |
Literary responses | Margery Allingham | Reviews were enthusiastic; many thought this a breakthrough both for MA
and her chosen genre. Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 147 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
Reception | Rose Macaulay | In a 1934 letter to Frank SwinnertonRM
called this work that absurd juvenile, and (I hope) forgotten book. qtd. in Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 129 |
Textual Production | Daisy Ashford | She shared the works in the notebook with friends and family, and they found her youthful exuberance and earnest voice amusing. Malcomson, R. M. Daisy Ashford: Her Life. Chatto & Windus, 1984. 96 |
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