Alice Thomas Ellis

Anna Haycraft (Alice Thomas Ellis) arrived at the deathbed with Lourdes holy water from which, Blackwood observed with true gallows humour, I might have caught my death.

The manuscript of this book had been firmly dismissed, with negative comment on the imagery, diction, and spelling, in 1964 by BB 's then agent.New Authors, the brainchild of Graham Nicoll ...

After BB 's affair with Clive de Pass ended, she allowed herself to become emotionally entangled with Colin Haycraft , her publisher at Duckworth. This love-affair ran concurrently with her professional relationships with both...

BB met Austin Davies , known as Ossie, in late 1950, when he was an art student drafted in to paint scenery for the Liverpool Repertory Company . He was enormously significant in...

Her friendship with Anna Haycraft (always rather rocky because it co-existed with a love-triangle) came to an end in 2001 when Bainbridge talked in an interview about the Haycrafts' marriage.

CB 's first marriage was a period of intense socializing. She knew virtually everyone in bohemian as well as in fashionable London circles. The painter Francis Bacon , a close friend of her husband's, became...

BB re-met Anna Haycraft by chance (some of their children were friends). Colin Haycraft was reputedly a misogynist who believed that non-fiction should be written by men and fiction by women, and on one occasion...

The married couple Colin Haycraft and Alice Thomas Ellis (herself a writer) both worked at Gerald Duckworth publishers, and met BB while she was working there as a clerk. They taught her to write properly...

Recent critic Cynthia Zarin argues that through the Diary of a Provincial Lady books, EMDspawned a genre that would later be imitated by writers such as Shirley Jackson , publishing in the 1950s, and...

Among other evaluations, Olga Kenyon admired AB 's capacity to represent the interiority and social frustrations of gifted undervalued women: women with twentieth-century awareness of their problems, which however are problems unchanged since...

BB began working as a part-time clerk for the publishing firm Gerald Duckworth , where Colin Haycraft and his wife Anna (the writer Alice Thomas Ellis ) provided invaluable advice for her writing career.

This was the first book she had published since the death of Colin Haycraft and after a determined attempt had been made to lure her away from Duckworth to Viking. The final offer made...

Hodder and Stoughton turned it down, then Chapman and Hall , then Chatto and Windus , all with words of encouragement which BB felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson

The title character was said to be based on BB 's lover Alan Sharp .Anna Haycraft , when she saw the first section in draft, insisted that Bainbridge must radically revise it. Choosing...

CB collaborated with Anna Haycraft (Alice Thomas Ellis, who here, however, used her actual name) on a cookery book ironically entitled Darling, You Shouldn't Have Gone to So Much Trouble.