Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Berta Ruck
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Standard Name: Ruck, Berta
Birth Name: Amy Roberta Ruck
Nickname: Berta
Married Name: Amy Roberta Onions
Married Name: Amy Roberta Oliver
Primarily a romantic novelist, BR
produced nearly eighty novels over the course of her writing career as well as large numbers of short stories. Her fiction focuses on young girls and love. She also produced an autobiography and four books of deliberately haphazard memoirs which pay loving tribute to Wales. Her career spanned all but about three decades of the twentieth century, during most of which she published an average higher than a book a year.
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The facts that she writes about art students, and that she attended the memorial service for art professor Henry Tonks
on 15 January 1937, suggest that she may—like the somewhat younger Berta Ruck
, Gwen John
Friends, Associates
E. Nesbit
Later friends included Laurence Housman
, Marshall Steele
, and the popular novelist Berta Ruck
(whom Nesbit first met as a friend of her daughter Iris at the Slade School). Nesbit could be difficult as...
It had already appeared serially from January 1905 to January 1906:
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
242, 460
During the two years leading up to the appearance of this work in book form EN
was often producing monthly instalments of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Cartland
As a young woman BC
immersed herself in books by Ethel M. Dell
, Elinor Glyn
, and Berta Ruck
, among others. Dell in particular had a lasting impact on her own writing.
Robyns, Gwen. Barbara Cartland. Doubleday, 1985.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Ethel M. Dell
Barbara Cartland
, according to her biographer Gwen Robyns
, developed a taste for the novels of EMD
(along with those of Berta Ruck
and Elinor Glyn
) as soon as she discovered the public...
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Blue Eyes and Grey. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
end pages
Textual Features
Pat Barker
The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art
students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor...
Textual Production
Dodie Smith
Autumn Crocus launched what theatre critic Ernest Short
called [a] Dodie Smith boom; in only six years, DS
had collected earnings of £60,000 from her plays.
Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942.
202
In 1934, Autumn Crocus was made into...
Textual Production
Barbara Cartland
In later life Cartland made herself the custodian of the romance tradition by re-issuing a long list of her favourites—Ethel M. Dell
, Elinor Glyn
, E. M. Hull
, Berta Ruck
, and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Q. D. Leavis
This book was conceptualized as a sequel to the dissertation of her husband F. R. Leavis
, completed in 1924, The Relationship of Journalism to Literature: Studied in the Rise and Earlier Development of the...
Timeline
March 1911
The Idlermonthly (launched as a sixpenny magazine in 1892) ceased publication.
14 June 1911
The future Edward VIII
was invested as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle in Wales: the first such ceremony to be held in the Principality itself in modern times.