Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
Lawrence Durrell
Standard Name: Durrell, Lawrence
Connections
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 | 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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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, pp. 21-2. 22 |
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 | 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... |
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, p. 240 pp. 97 |
Timeline
By February 1957: Lawrence Durrell published his novel Justine,...
Writing climate item
By February 1957
Lawrence Durrell
published his novelJustine, the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet. He wrote in manic bursts, taking weeks rather than months for each novel (of which the...
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
10 October 2013
1962: Publisher John Calder and writer's widow...
Writing climate item
1962
Publisher John Calder
and writer's widow Sonia Orwell
together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.
Texts
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