Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Antonia White
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Standard Name: White, Antonia
Birth Name: Eirene Adeline Botting
Pseudonym: Antonia White
Nickname: Tony
Pseudonym: Ann Jeffrey
Pseudonym: Jane Marshall
AW
found composition a torment, suffered from recurrent writer's block, and discarded innumerable drafts of everything she wrote. Yet besides working as a journalist, she left more than thirty translations, four heavily autobiographical novels, some stories and poems, a play, a fragment of autobiography, two children's books, letters, and diaries amounting to more than a million words.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
It was re-issued in 1984 in an omnibus volume from Virago
together with two other novels about growing up female: Rosamond Lehmann
's The Weather in the Streets and Antonia White
's Frost in May.
Publishing
Colette
This was translated into English (as Claudine at School) by Janet Flanner
in 1930 and by Antonia White
in 1956 (several times reprinted).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
It was followed the next year by Claudine à Paris...
Publishing
Colette
It was translated under the title Recaptured by Viola Gerard Garvin
in 1931. Another translation, by Antonia White
, appeared under the title of The Shackle in 1963 (title-page saying 1964), as the seventeenth and...
Publishing
Colette
There had by this date been one collected edition of her works in French; two more followed by the end of the twentieth century. The edition in English ran to 17 volumes. Other translators were...
Publishing
Mary Wesley
In the same year that she published her first novel for adults, MW
followed her first two children's books with a third, Haphazard House. Written after the death of her husband, and taking death...
Textual Features
Theodora Benson
Her contributors include Louis Golding
on his first time horse-racing and Beverley Nichols
on having an Affaire. Betty Askwith
wrote of being bitten with the travel bug (on a journey in company with TB
Textual Production
Sara Maitland
SM
provided an introduction to Antonia White
's The Hound and the Falcon (the novel in which White describes her return to the Roman Catholic Church
), when it was reprinted by Virago
in 1982...
Travel
Djuna Barnes
Other visitors to Hayford Hall included Antonia White
and Emily Coleman
. DB
also spent the summer of 1933 there.
Field, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. University of Texas, 1985.
195-6, 198
Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995.