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Literary responses | Eleanor Farjeon | D. H. Lawrence
thought her a real poet, but criticised her for refusing to fight things out to their last issue. . . . [Y]ou never burn yours to the last fire. . .... |
Literary responses | Evelyn Underhill | In reviewing Theophanies for the Times Literary Supplement, Walter de la Mare
reported that in EU
's attempt to express the ineffable . . . her poems sometimes diffuse into rhapsody or harden (what... |
Literary responses | Eleanor Farjeon | British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson
and Walter de la Mare
. British Book News. British Council. (1952): 122 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Stewart | It was only after her marriage and subsequent ectopic pregnancy that MS
began seriously to consider writing novels. In 1948 she began work on a children's story, The Enchanted Journey, which was inspired by... |
Occupation | Naomi Royde-Smith | She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade. Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988. 1: 149n1 Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 137 |
Occupation | Anne Ridler | AR
worked at Faber & Faber
as secretary and copy-editor, first for Richard de la Mare
and from late 1936 for T. S. Eliot
. Her duties included helping Eliot select poetry for The Criterion... |
Occupation | Eleanor Farjeon | |
politics | Bryher | H. D.
, Edith Sitwell
, Vita Sackville-West
, Dorothy Wellesley
, T. S. Eliot
, and Walter de la Mare
were among the readers at this event, which also received royal patronage. Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, 1999, http://Rutherford HSS. 235 and n45 |
Publishing | Mary Webb | MW
's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces. The Bodleian Library
holds a copy of this edition (with... |
Publishing | Anne Ridler | AR
's first volume published with Faber & Faber
benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot
recommended its publication, Ridler, Anne. “Working for T.S. Eliot: A Personal Reminiscence”. Poetry Review, Vol. 73 , No. 1, 1983, pp. 46-9. 49 |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
contributed three essays to the English Review: one on Walter de la Mare
and two others on the United States. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009. 71n56 Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 80, 165 |
Reception | Lady Margaret Sackville | Dr Georgina Somerville
in The Harp Aeolian, 1953 (a tiny-format book, whose title suggests the poet as passive recipient of divine inspiration, and whose contents are not noted in the MLA Bibliography), offers... |
Reception | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
found and valued in DW
's work both descriptive genius qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Rose Macaulay | To celebrate the appearance of her collection, RM
threw a party at her flat to which she ambitiously invited Walter de la Mare
. He attended, as did her publisher for this book, Frank Sidgwick |
Reception | Charlotte Mew | CM
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield
, Thomas Hardy
, and Walter de la Mare
. Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx. xv Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 311 |
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