Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch.
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Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In a letter of 1952, Richardson comments that she would have willingly, delightedly translated Le temps retrouvé, the last volume of Proust
's A la recherche du temps perdu, after the translator of... |
Textual Production | Julia Kristeva | These are Le féminin et le sacré (which arose out of a correspondence on these topics with Catherine Clément
), and was translated by Jane Marie Todd
as The Feminine and the Sacred, 2001);... |
Textual Production | Ada Leverson | AL
wrote to T. S. Eliot
(editor of The Criterion) offering him an essay on Wilde
, something on Proust
, and a short story, The Consultation. Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch. 93 |
Textual Features | Ann Quin | It was about a homosexual, though at the time I had never met one, knew very little about queers (maybe I had read something on Proust
?). Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol. new series 6 , pp. 63-8. 66 |
Textual Features | Margaret Kennedy | Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues... |
Textual Features | Angela Carter | This novel (first of a group written as first-person confessional narratives) Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan. 114 |
Textual Features | Dodie Smith | The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how... |
Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | The volume reprints poems from each of HD
's previous collections. The new poems, set in many different places, tend to deal with moments of emotion, often preceding rather than following action. Several reflect her... |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | Shortly after her husband died, VT
visited St Loup de Naud, a hamlet near Provins, France, which is famous for the carvings on its Norman church, and which Proust
, an acquaintance from... |
Reception | Eva Figes | An interview with EF
appears in Olga Kenyon
's Women Writers Talk, 1989, and she is one of those whose work is included in Bryan Cheyette
's anthology Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and... |
Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
first read Proust
(Swann's Way) in December 1922. She devoted much time to her reading and thinking about Proust, and relished his writing for being a thousand things at once, with the... |
Reception | Dorothy Bussy | The book was a great success in England, where it went into twenty printings during the first several weeks of its release. Soon afterwards it was translated into French by Bussy herself and Roger Martin du Gard |
Publishing | Tillie Olsen | Tillie Lerner, later TO
, was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf
and Donald Klopfer
, founders of... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
contributed to Marcel Proust, an expensive volume with illustrations, edited by Peter Quennell
, an essay entitled The Art of Bergotte. Brown, Spencer Curtis, and Elizabeth Bowen. “Foreword”. Pictures and Conversations, Alfred A. Knopf, p. vii - xlii. ix |
Publishing | Pamela Hansford Johnson | A volume appeared as Six Proust
Reconstructions of PHJ
's dramatic sketches written for the radio, with the cast-lists and excerpts from the musical scores. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 399 |
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