Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, p. vii - xvi.
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Literary responses | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
's contemporary the future novelist Elizabeth Jenkins
later remembered devouring the successive instalments of this book in the Daily Mirror. Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, p. vii - xvi. ix |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | Glendinning writes: She is what happened after Bloomsbury; she is the link that connects Virginia Woolf
with Iris Murdoch
and Muriel Spark
. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. xv |
Literary responses | Angela Thirkell | AT
never over-estimated her own talent. She wrote that she and her fictional alter-ego, Laura Morland, each write the same book each year with unfailing regularity, and called her own work not very good books... |
Literary responses | Monica Dickens | It caused, however, considerable outrage in some nursing circles. Going back to the hospital to visit a patient, MD
disguised herself as far as possible, knowing that her book could not have been welcome. A... |
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 Setting | Elizabeth Bowen | The novel has two heroines: Portia, a fifteen-year-old, and Anna Quayne, wife of Thomas Quayne. Portia, Thomas' half-sister, comes to live with the Quaynes in their Regent's Park house (based on EB
's own London... |
Occupation | Theodora Benson | During the Second World War TB
worked for the Ministry of Information
, writing Speaker's Notes, material for public speeches explaining the war effort.Elizabeth Jenkins
, her assistant, said she was brilliant at this... |
Publishing | Theodora Benson | Elizabeth Jenkins
wrote that before the second world war TB
had a brilliant, brief career in popular journalism, like the flash of a kingfisher across a stream. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 59 |
Reception | Charlotte Yonge | E. M. Delafield
writes that during the 1940s CY
retained wide popularity: that the London Library
's copies of her books were often checked out by readers, and that when Delafield wrote to the Times... |
Residence | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
later speculated about what her feelings would be if Bowen's Court were to burn down. Elizabeth Jenkins
found it a beautiful and mournful spectacle. . . . so scantily furnished as to seem almost... |
Residence | Theodora Benson | Late in the second world war she was living in a small flat perched at the top of one of the tall buildings of Piccadilly, with no storage space and precious possessions stacked around... |
Textual Features | Ngaio Marsh | She named her detective-hero Roderick Alleyn after the Elizabethan actor and theatre entrepreneur Edward Alleyn
(who founded the school where her father had been educated, and a biography of whom by Elizabeth Jenkins
was published... |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | Other contributors to the volume included Lettice Cooper
, Elizabeth Jenkins
, Margaret Kennedy
, and Katharine Briggs
. |
Textual Production | Theodora Benson | As Elizabeth Jenkins
told it, this began as an idea for a reportage novel illuminating the secrets of some particular métier. Jenkins hoped for something of morbid decadence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe
, but... |
Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
dedicated her work to Florence Mary Parsons
(calling her, with formal correctness, Mrs. Clement Parsons), author of the twenty-five-year-old definitive biography of Siddons. People she acknowledges include her husband (for advice about old... |
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