Angus Wilson

Through parties hosted by her eventual publisher, the Macmillan Company , EW also met Morley Callaghan , who admired her writing. Other writers she knew included John Gray , A. J. M. Smith , Robert Weaver

Her mother persisted in calling UEA that ropey university. One of the teaching staff there was novelist Angus Wilson , who become her mentor, influence, and friend.

Science Fiction and Mrs Brown opens with a long quotation in which Woolf relates how she observed this shabby, immaculate old lady on a train from Richmond to London, and saw her as the character...

Her omnivorous reading during the last year of her degree included the major modern novelists, notably including Proust and Woolf (the darling dangerous woman who made her feel quite incapable of writing anything straight...

The book received mixed reviews, the most damning in the New York Review of Books. But its admirers included D. J. Enright (who in the New Statesman called this Spark's best, her richest...

More recently, writers citing Mansfield's importance to them have included Brigid Brophy , Angus Wilson , and Canadian Alice Munro . Janice Kulyk Keefer 's Thieves: A Novel of Katherine Mansfield, 2004, presents a...

For a first publication, this garnered much positive comment. While The Guardian, Sir John Betjeman in the Daily Telegraph, and Angus Wilson in the Observer were comparatively unappreciative, Kingsley Amis in The Spectator...

Novelist Angus Wilson , in the course of an otherwise notably fair and sensitive review for The Observer, said that VW 's her reputation had been overestimated. On this Ivy Compton-Burnett commented: Ugly...

ET wrote amusingly of the horror of appearing on a television programme about books, filmed at Birmingham: sitting on spindly chairs under dazzling lights with other participants (Angus Wilson , whom she liked...

This collection, with an introduction by Angus Wilson , was reprinted as a Penguin Modern Classic in 1983.

Reviewers enthused over RG 's narrative style. The book was short-listed for the Booker Prize; Margaret Drabble (biographer of Angus Wilson , who chaired the judges) suggests that Wilson wanted it to win.

The selection ranges from Shakespeare to Angus Wilson , from the Bible to Liz Lochhead .

It is set partly during the Blitz in London (where Bowen was living in Regent's Park, whose roses and spacious vistas provide the opening scene, and partly in the English home counties at an...

Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...

MD published Angus Wilson : A Biography.