Phyllis Lassner

Standard Name: Lassner, Phyllis

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Rumer Godden
She was awarded an OBE in 1993 (at the same time that Muriel Spark was made a Dame).
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999.
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In 2010 a book of critical essays on RG appeared, edited by Lucy Le-Guilcher and Phyllis B. Lassner
Literary responses Marghanita Laski
The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a sad and cautionary idyll, and yet [a]ltogether a witty lark.
Charques, Richard Denis. “Mayfair Comedy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2235, 2 Dec. 1944, p. 581.
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Critic Phyllis Lassner compares ML 's Clarissa to Samuel Richardson 's, noting that both heroines are...
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.
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Her books sold well in their time and were translated into Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Virago re-issued...

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Texts

Lassner, Phyllis. “’Between the Gaps’: Sex, Class and Anarchy in the British Comic Novel of World War II”. Look Who’s Laughing: Gender and Comedy, edited by Gail Finney, Gordon and Breach, 1994, pp. 205-19.
Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press, 1998.
Lassner, Phyllis. “Cry For Life: Storm Jameson, Stevie Smith, and the Fate of Europe’s Jews”. Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture, edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992, pp. 181-90.
Lassner, Phyllis. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne, 1991.