L. P. Hartley

MK also forged a lasting friendship with novelist and critic L. P. Hartley . She and her husband regularly invited Hartley over for dinners and visits, and he, in turn, allowed them to stay in...

Cynthia was also a friend of Viola Meynell and of Enid Bagnold , whose Sussex homes were close to that of the Asquiths during the Second World War. Thirkell, as well as Lawrence, Bagnold, and...

Apart from MBL 's established literary friends, there were many whose early writing she encouraged to particularly good effect: Graham Greene , Margaret Kennedy , Pamela Frankau , E. M. Delafield , and L. P. Hartley .

PF was a friend of L. P. Hartley and of Stevie Smith , both of whom she met when they contributed to World Review, of which she and her husband were editors. Her sudden...

Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver (author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden , Olivia Manning , and Cecily Mackworth , Kay Dick (assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly...

ET wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. She had a passion for modern painting, and...

Critic Hermione Lee , reviewing the collection for the Guardian, praised SH 's tender attention to detail, and likened her to L. P. Hartley and Elizabeth Bowen .

Literary reviews were generally positive. The Times of London praised EOB 's gift of quick, sensitive observation. In the New StatesmanV. S. Naipaul praised O'Brien for simply offer[ing] her characters, [who] come...

The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found the regressive narrative disconcerting and tiring. Novelist L. P. Hartley , writing in the London Magazine, expressed the view that the technique was a misuse...

L. P. Hartley , reviewing Elders and Betters in the Sketch dated 23 February 1944, voiced a frequent response to ICB : that despite her anti-realistic methods, she came closer to portraying reality than did...

Of this novel ICB wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews. They did, however, praise the book, especially in the case of reviewers who were also novelists, like Elizabeth Bowen , Pamela Hansford Johnson

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...

She wrote to L. P. Hartley about the ceremony: It will amuse you to know that as I advanced towards the Queen to get my decoration, the band played Annie, Get Your Gun.

During the war years Kennedy felt London was too dangerous for her children and they therefore remained at Hendre. This arrangement meant that Kennedy and Davies spent the duration of the war travelling between Wales...

Pinter was highly productive as a writer of screenplays, beginning with The Servant in 1963. This film, adapted from a novella by Robin Maugham and dealing with an employer (Dirk Bogarde ) who is...