Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ada Leverson | Unhappy in her marriage, though putting a good face on it, AL
sought solace in romantic attachments. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 20 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Leverson | AL
's style and reputation are bound up with those of Oscar Wilde
. Her biographer Charles Burkhart
accepts that Wilde was the catalyst of her writing career, though he insists that she does not... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Leverson | This novel is a comedy of manners set in London in springtime, the start of the social season. Critic Charles Burkhart
suggests that the title alludes to Shakespeare
's Twelfth Night; it also, paradoxically... |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Recent commentators (Charles Burkhart
, Robert Emmet Long
, Diana Benet
, and Janice Rossen
) have expressed significant dissatisfaction with the ways in which this novel's conclusion overturns comic, romantic conventions, and have... |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
Textual Features | Ada Leverson | The First World War is an important theme in this novel; Edith Ottley's guests find it hard to talk about anything else. Aylmer has returned into Edith's life as a wounded war hero. She decides... |
Textual Production | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Since ICB
had appointed no literary executor, Gollancz prepared the manuscript for publication, with a foreword by Elizabeth Sprigge and a critical epilogue by Charles Burkhart
. Compton-Burnett, Ivy, Elizabeth Sprigge, and Charles Burkhart. The Last and the First. Gollancz, 1971. prelims Burkhart, Charles, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. “Critical Epilogue”. The Last and the First, Gollancz, 1971, pp. 151 - 9. 151-2 |
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