Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Henry Green
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Standard Name: Green, Henry
HG
's unusually spare novels, which experiment with a steadily increasing proportion of dialogue to narrative, appeared during the mid twentieth century. He also published an autobiography.
Though her biographers say she was still in love with Reggie Smith after the end of the second world war, OM
had by then had various brief affairs. One with John Mair
, detective-story writer...
Family and Intimate relationships
Emma Tennant
ET
made her first marriage, to Sebastian Yorke
, the son of Henry Yorke (who is better known as the novelist Henry Green
).
Burke, John, editor. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s Peerage.
Hill, Rosemary. “Boulevard Brogues”. London Review of Books, 13 May 1999, pp. 10-11.
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Montague-Smith, Patrick, editor. Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett’s Peerage and Gale Research, 1976–2024, http://HSS Ref CS 420 D28.
During RL
's involvement with Goronwy Rees, they both encouraged novelist Henry Green
(actual name Henry Yorke
) to submit the manuscript of his Party Going to John Lehmann, who promoted it with Leonard
and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Philip Larkin
He described it as allegorical, a Virginia Woolf
-Henry Green
novel.
qtd. in
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
160
Its theme, he wrote, was the relinquishing of live response to life.
qtd. in
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002.
134
Its protagonist, Katherine, hails from somewhere unspecified in Central...
Literary Setting
Emma Tennant
Although she was already divorced and re-married, this depiction of the shallowness of the young London upper class
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
reflects the stylistic influence of her first father-in-law, Henry Green
.
Residence
Rosamond Lehmann
After leaving her husband RL
lived very briefly in a room in the house of Henry Yorke
(Henry Green the novelist) in London, regardless of the blitz. She then settled at Aldworth in Berkshire.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
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Timeline
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Texts
Green, Henry. Back. Hogarth Press, 1946.
Green, Henry. Blindness. Dent, 1926.
Green, Henry. Caught. Hogarth Press, 1943.
Green, Henry. Concluding. Hogarth Press, 1948.
Green, Henry. Doting. Hogarth Press, 1952.
Green, Henry. Living. Dent, 1929.
Green, Henry. Loving. Hogarth Press, 1945.
Green, Henry. Nothing. Hogarth Press, 1950.
Green, Henry. Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait. Hogarth Press, 1940.
