Robert Liddell

Ivy Compton-Burnett wrote to her friend ET of her great and lasting pleasure in this novel. The Book Marketing Council included it on its list of Best Novels of Our Time. Nevertheless most...

British Book News judged ET to be at the top of her form in these stories, but they were savaged by Walter Allen , who used a damaging comparison with Jan Struther 's...

Liddell responded warmly to these accounts, whose detail, he felt, was really literature. Taylor began asking for letters to be destroyed when her cancer recurred early in the year of her death, and Liddell complied.

It appears that at this date BP admired (as did so many German women of analogous background) the ritual, the pageantry, perhaps the swaggering masculinity connected with National Socialism . Some of her English friends...

In a letter to Philip LarkinBP wrote that she felt she had been treated very badly by Cape , but that she was also not altogether surprised. For one thing she knew that other...

In many ways this novel reflects BP 's undergraduate years at Oxford , featuring characters and episodes based partly on herself, her sister, and her friends or acquaintances. Among these, Henry Harvey and the future...

Several more visits to Greece followed from (beginning with one in 1959), on which she travelled by herself. In May 1961 she was in Athens, Paros, and the Peloponnesus. The following year...

She found Bucharest a surprise, having done little travelling and been able to secure only an out-of-date guidebook. Early impressions included the urban luxury of shops and restaurants, the squalor of beggars, the gradual permeation...