Charles Percy Snow

PHJ died after several strokes (she had emphysema), nearly a year after her second husband 's death.

PHJ 's husband, C. P. Snow , a well-known public figure and since 1964 a life peer, died.

PHJ met scientist and novelist C. P. Snow, later Lord Snow , for the first time in 1941, after they had already been corresponding on literary topics.

PHJ married, as her second husband, the scientist and writer C. P. Snow ; their being both authors, she said, was never a problem but always a binding factor.

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While studying at King's CollegeSH , an aspiring writer, wrote to novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson and her writer husband C. P. Snow for advice on the profession. The couple answered her letters and even...

This is a satirical novel set on a US campus—though not, PHJ insists, embodying any identifiable place or people. The title, from Shakespeare 's Midsummer Night's Dream, suggests that the campus of the story...

Wendy Pollard , who published a biography of her in 2014, was admiringly enthusiastic about PHJ 's writing; Tessa Hadley , who reviewed the biography, held a much lower opinion. Johnson's style, wrote Hadley, was...

The book was well received, and enhanced SP 's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw praised it in a speech on the BBC in which he compared SP to Joan of Arc ...

Growing Up was praised in print by Elizabeth Bowen and privately by C. P. Snow . The Times Literary Supplement found the stories distinguished for both their clarity and their good writng but marred by...

RPJ was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in earlier 1979, a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1983, and a CBE in 1998. She attracted less critical attention in...

A joint dramatic adaptation by PHJ and her husband , The Public Prosecutor (written by them from Marguerite Alexieva 's translation of the Bulgarian of Georgi Dzhagarov ), was produced at Hampstead Theatre Club .

PHJ herself had such doubts about the quality of this novel that she would have burned the manuscript if her husband had not intervened.British Book News, however, praised its remarkably human and...

Having begun their married life in Hyde Park Crescent, PHJ and C. P. Snow (her second husband) moved to an old, half-timbered house in the main street of Clare in Suffolk.

PHJ published short stories in periodicals, and many of them were included in anthologies such as Stories of the Forties, 1945 (edited by Reginald Moore and Woodrow Wyatt ), and the first and third...