qtd. in
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006.
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Marina Warner | In England, MW
had a comfortable middle-class upbringing. Her godfather was crime reformer Lord Longford
(father of historian and novelist Antonia Fraser
). A writer, Violet Trefusis
, was her godmother and another novelist, Lawrence Durrell |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ridler | Her brother was working for publishers George Bell
, and she met a number of authors, including Antonia White
and Margaret Kennedy
. Later, through her own work, she met with T. S. Eliot
's... |
Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | In Paris Mackworth moved in artistic and literary circles. She met gallery-owner Jeanne Bucher
and artists William Hayter
, David Edgar
, and Hans Reichel
. Even more significantly for her own future, she met... |
Literary responses | Iris Murdoch | Among a chorus of discriminating praise, Susan Hill
(after identifying herself as a Murdoch enthusiast who ranked her, with William Golding
and Lawrence Durrell
, as one of the three best and most important living... |
Literary responses | Cecily Mackworth | CM
's old friend Lawrence Durrell
wrote to describe to her his pleasure in this book: Just reading, sipping, devouring to prolong the pain/pleasure of your beautiful, cogent and brilliant memories. qtd. in Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006. |
Publishing | Olivia Manning | Abroad during the second world war, OM
continued to write and place stories, and also essays. She was for a while employed on the literary pages of the Jerusalem Post. Treglown, Jeremy. “Make use of me”. London Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2006, pp. 21-2. 22 |
Publishing | Cecily Mackworth | CM
's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le... |
Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | In 1986 she published with her introduction, through Turret Books
, the Selected Poems of her late brother Harry Fainlight
, with a memoir by Allen Ginsberg
and a poem by Ted Hughes
, in... |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | She also sat on the committee which, under Alice Mary Smyth (later Hadfield)
, was at work compiling the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 97 |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | Miller learned of her poetry through Lawrence Durrell
, who had begged her to send him everything in your jam cupboard. After the magazine sailed close to the wind over the issue of obscenity with... |
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