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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Jenkins | The novel was criticised by some for its exclusively upper-middle-class reach—a view which was energetically countered by Rose Macaulay
on a radio programme. |
| Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Critic Nicola Beauman
sees this as EMD
's most cruelly satirical novel. Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii. xii |
| Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | Recent critics, such as Barbara Brothers
and Beauman
, have re-read the novel for its focus on the portrayal of women and their lives in fiction, to find it one of Kennedy's more substantive and... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | At Mrs. Lippincote's set the tone for reception of ET
by attracting very mixed reviews. She treasured praise from L. P. Hartley
, Richard Church
(who was reminded of Woolf
's Mrs Dalloway), and... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | In connection with this story and with At Mrs. Lippincote's, Nicola Beauman
called her one of the great writers about childhood. Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago, 1983. 7 qtd. in Jones, Amanda Jane. “The Sad Strangeness of Separation: Enuresis and Separation Anxiety in Women’s Wartime Fiction”. Women’s History, Vol. 2 , No. 4, 1 Mar.–31 May 2016, pp. 24-8. 26 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Nicola Beauman
has called these some of the most remarkable letters of the twentieth century. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. xv O’Connell, John. “’I have not got a bikini’”. The Guardian, 20 June 2009, p. Review 9. Review 9 |
| Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | The volume was a Book Society
recommendation. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
| Publishing | E. M. Delafield | The book is dedicated to the editor and directors of Time and Tide. Its many reprints include those with introductions by Nicola Beauman
and by Jilly Cooper
. |
| Publishing | Margaret Kennedy | |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Taylor | US sales for stories soon followed. Harper's Bazaar published one extracted from A View from the Harbour in July 1947, and a year later, in September 1948, I Live in a World of Make-Beiieve (which... |
| Reception | Susan Miles | This book appeared with very distinguished endorsement on its jacket. T. S. Eliot
wrote that he found it a very poignant story.Storm Jameson
wrote, Its simplicities are at a profound level. The theme is... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Taylor | Two monographs have been devoted to ET
: one in the Twayne
series by Florence Leclercq, another by N. H. Reeve
, 2008. Leclercq
's analysis left a good deal to be desired. She was... |
| Textual Features | E. M. Delafield | The plot centres on a married woman's love for another man. 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. |
| Textual Features | E. M. Hull | After beginning her trip smoothly, Diana is surprised by a Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan, who kidnaps and rapes her. But EMH
provides a troubling confluence of passion and male aggression, carefully blurring the line between... |
| Textual Features | E. M. Hull | Marny is Carew's counterpart because of her dismal experience of marriage. His wife was unfaithful; her husband was abusive (he struck her, the whole weight of his powerful body behind the smashing blow that... |
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