She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her...
Literary responses
Jane Gardam
Reviewer Ann Thwaite
appreciated Bridget and William as a strong simple winter story set in the Yorkshire dales,
but later, judging a bunch of books for the under-eights, she felt that...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jennings
EJ
had the habit of sending quantities of undifferentiated manuscripts to her Carcanet Press
editor, Michael Schmidt
, for him to sort, select, and arrange for print.
Crawford, Robert. “Locked and Barred”. London Review of Books, 24 July 2003, pp. 31-2.