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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 |
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 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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | 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 |
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... |
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