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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Frankau | PF
was the lover of poet and civil servant Humbert Wolfe
for the final decade of his life; he was much older than she was, and married (though he separated from his wife in 1938)... |
Friends, Associates | Pamela Frankau | PF
's friendship with Rebecca West
began with West seeing her as a protégée worthy of her time and energy, Frankau, Pamela. “Preface”. A Letter from R*b*cc* W*st, edited by Diana Raymond, Privately printed at the Tragara Press, pp. 3-5. 3 Frankau, Pamela. “Preface”. A Letter from R*b*cc* W*st, edited by Diana Raymond, Privately printed at the Tragara Press, pp. 3-5. 3 |
Textual Features | Pamela Frankau | The novel's title is a word which means a male falcon, and comes with an antique or medieval flavour. Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/. |
Textual Production | Pamela Frankau | Frankau wrote this character-sketch in retaliation for West's scathing portrait of her lover, Humbert Wolfe
, in her story The Addict, 1935. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 137-8 |
Textual Features | Pamela Frankau | The central character of the original story, Penelope Wells, is a talented English girl growing up in the south of France at the eccentric hotel chaotically run by her famous-poet father and her French stepmother... |
Textual Production | Pamela Frankau | A plan for a posthumous symposium about PF
's lover Wolfe
, of which she was to edit the proceedings, came to nothing. Bagguley, Philip. Harlequin in Whitehall. A life of Humbert Wolfe, poet and civil servant 1885-1940. Nyala Publishing. ix |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Frankau | In this book PF
offers her impressions of celebrities Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. 119 |
Friends, Associates | Margery Lawrence | Among ML
's close friends were the Irish diplomat and writer Sir Shane Leslie
and the English war-poet Humbert Wolfe
(lover of Pamela Frankau
). Lawrence, Margery, and Shane Leslie. Fourteen to Forty-Eight. Robert Hale. 11 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margery Lawrence | Her close friend the Irish diplomat and writer Sir Shane Leslie
wrote a Foreword to the volume. In her Author's Note, ML
confesses as a dark secret the fact that all my life I... |
Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | The volume was much praised. The Athenæum called RMone of the most interesting of contemporary poets and a very accomplished metrist. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago. 118 |
Literary responses | Laura Riding | The volume was praised by Humbert Wolfe
and Janet Adam Smith
, but called by the Times Literary Supplementoften extremely difficult and occasionally annoying in its word play, shifting meanings, and free association. Geoffrey Grigson |
Reception | Lady Margaret Sackville | Dr Georgina Somerville
in The Harp Aeolian, 1953 (a tiny-format book, whose title suggests the poet as passive recipient of divine inspiration, and whose contents are not noted in the MLA Bibliography), offers... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy L. Sayers | The academic background gives DLS
an excuse for lavish literary quotation: from Greek, from Shakespeare
and other canonical writers, many of them Elizabethan, and from moderns like Humbert Wolfe
. Her Oxford
is the preserve... |
Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | Other plums were Max Beerbohm
, H. G. Wells
, Somerset Maugham
, J. B. Priestley
, and Humbert Wolfe
. Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS
suggested that she... |
Literary responses | Alison Uttley | This book pleased some prestigious critics. Although the New Statesman was rather sniffy and the New English Weekly hostile, Margery Allingham
in Time and Tide called it enchanting. Humbert Wolfe
in the Observer said... |
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