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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bowen | Elizabeth Jenkins
observed that EB
, elegant as she was in style, was highly sexed and attractive to men. She bore about her the aroma of passionate experiences.Molly Keane
wrote that at parties all... |
death | Theodora Benson | Her brother-in-law persuaded a reluctant Elizabeth Jenkins
to write her Times obituary. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004. 139 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia White | This was three months after the annulment of AW
's first marriage came through. Eric had a job with the Foreign Office
. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 94-5 Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32 - 4. 32 |
Friends, Associates | Theodora Benson | TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)... |
Friends, Associates | Stella Gibbons | In 1954 SG
became concerned that her literary career was running down. At the instigation of her friend and fellow novelist Elizabeth Jenkins
, she enlisted a new literary agent, Curtis Brown
, who helped... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Kennedy | Other women writers with whom MK
established friendships included Lettice Cooper
, Phyllis Bentley
(who had also been at Cheltenham
), Marghanita Laski
, Elizabeth Jenkins
, and Rose Macaulay
. These authors supported and... |
Friends, Associates | Marghanita Laski | ML
was a friend of a number of other women writers (besides her fellow Charlotte Yonge enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins
, Georgina Battiscombe
, and Lettice Cooper
), notably Margaret Kennedy
(whom her husband published) and Betty Miller
. |
Friends, Associates | Norah Lofts | NL
rarely associated with other authors, though she was a friend of the popular writer Elizabeth Jenkins
, whose interests, like her own, were historical. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981. 80 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John
and Susan Buchan
, and it was through them that she... |
Leisure and Society | Marghanita Laski | ML
co-founded the Charlotte M. Yonge Society
, along with friends and fellow writers and Yonge
enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins
, Georgina Battiscombe
, and Lettice Cooper
, among others. Laski, Marghanita, and Georgina Battiscombe, editors. A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge. Cresset Press, 1965. 11, 13 |
Literary responses | Stella Gibbons | The publisher had no shortage of praise to quote in advertising material. Elizabeth Goudge
called the book the most exciting story and generally agreed with Elizabeth Jenkins
's point that it achieved a truly remarkable... |
Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Richard Sunne
wrote in the New Statesman and Nation of Shallow Water, Miss Benson's soufflé is perfect, and she serves it under a magical salamander, so that each piece retains its lightness and its... |
Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | The biography, which reads like a handbook, was not reviewed positively by the Times Literary Supplement. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 182 Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 179 |
Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Her friend Elizabeth Jenkins
referred years later to Benson's amateurish but charming novels. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004. 59 |
Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Elizabeth Jenkins
wrote that The White Sea Monkey was not only the most terrifying story I ever read, but the most characteristic expression of her, in its agonized compassion and its understanding of the human... |