Victoria Glendinning

According to biographer Victoria Glendinning , ES wrote in her later life: I was unpopular with my parents from the moment of my birth. She felt that she was a changeling, thought her...

Her biographer Victoria Glendinning believes that her Anglicanism was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support...

At thirteen VSW began attending a small day school run by Helen Wolff (whose name is variously spelled in various sources) in South Audley Street, off Park Lane. The staff were mostly male. Vita...

ES had received crucial support from Rootham in establishing her life and writing; she returned the support both financially and emotionally during Rootham's ultimately unsuccessful struggles to make a career as a singer. In...

According to Vita Sackville-West's biographer Victoria Glendinning , DW in her later years (from about 1940) was frequently blind drunk, often outrageously so in public.

The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter, and likens it to the Reynolds painting, The Three Graces Decorating a Statue of Hymen...

VSW became a debutante, entering the ritual season of fashionable parties which would launch her in society.

Victoria Glendinning wrote in a New Statesman review: Howard writes most confidently and touchingly at very close range, about momentary doubts, unspoken anxieties, fleeting perceptions, intense good moments and equally intense bad ones, all inextricably...

In 1978 OM was sued by surviving relations of Sir Walter Smart , the original of a character in the novel who is shown in a disturbing and memorable scene attempting to feed the dead...

Victoria Glendinning , reviewing for the New York Times, wrote that in this invigorating selection, EWconstantly touches the painful place where literary critic and creative writer meet; she apparently finds the relation...

Critics have often bracketed The Third Miss Symons and The Rector's Daughter together as FMM 's masterpieces, in their terse prose style and resistance to stereotypes of spinsterhood. Victoria Glendinning , reviewing Oldfield's life of...

Reviews of the novel were mixed. Reviewers criticised authorial intrusions, question-and-answer dialogue, and role-typing, while praising solid construction, shrewdness, and authenticity. Victoria Glendinning in the Times Literary Supplementtraced the details about material objects and...

Reviewers divided over the question of how convincingly RT had impersonated her very young male hero. The Guardian reviewer admired the way that readers were led deep . . . into Lewis's consciousness, while some...

Sitwell was subject to dismissive antifeminist comment from such critics as Geoffrey Grigson and Harold Acton . The poets of the Movement were famously dismissive of ES . Al Alvarez published a notorious and...

Victoria Glendinning in the Times Literary Supplement (in AF 's only review to date in that prestigious journal) gave a muted welcome to this collection. To Fell's expressed desire to write ourselves some decent parts...