The Parkin Gallery
planned an exhibition of her work in 1981 and advertised for catalogue...
politics
Valentine Ackland
With Warner, Ackland was a member of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
. Her connection with the Left Review brought her into contact with intellectuals such as Edgell Rickword
and his wife Johnnie
politics
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
, and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)...
Reception
Mary Butts
The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay
's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
380
It did, however, receive several positive...
Timeline
1926: Fanfrolico Press, founded in Australia in...
Writing climate item
1926
Fanfrolico Press
, founded in Australia in 1923 by Jack Lindsay
and John T. Kirtley
, established a London branch at 5 Bloomsbury Square.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
119
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
320
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.