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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | Other notable women authors also contributed to this series, including three of MK
's writing friends: Lettice Cooper
, Elizabeth Jenkins
, and Marghanita Laski
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 178 |
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. 182 Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 179 |
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. 11, 13 |
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
. |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | Other contributors to the volume included Lettice Cooper
, Elizabeth Jenkins
, Margaret Kennedy
, and Katharine Briggs
. |
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. 80 |
Literary responses | Norah Lofts | Elizabeth Jenkins
found The House at Sunset admirable, written with unflagging buoyancy, intensity, vigour and emotional colour. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (3 May1963): 317 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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