Ann Kennedy Smith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ann Kennedy Smith

'In his lectures Sir Ernest Shackleton often described how three “strong, healthy girls” had applied to join the Endurance expedition of 1914-16, with the clear understanding that his audience would find the idea as humorous as he did.' @TheTLS #biography https://t.co/CBPV50S4Zy

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@elizabethmoya Not exactly obscure but "Chance", "Silence" and "Soon" from Alice Munro's Runaway (2004) on the estrangement of mother & daughter

Ann Kennedy Smith

A grateful Oscar Wilde later sent Richard Burdon Haldane an anonymous copy of The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897) https://t.co/vwdsz7oYzw

Ann Kennedy Smith

‘the story of the Press is, in a way, the story of the marriage: Leonard’s anxiety for her health, their mutual interests, their areas of division, and reflected in the list, their cultural and political life.’ Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (1997) @vintagebooks #HogarthPress https://t.co/riH7pOg74E

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A lovely, cheering episode about the page-turning escapism of Margaret Wolfe Hungerford's novel Molly Bawn (1878) in the marvellous #LostLadiesOfLit podcast https://t.co/F8m9Xb3VZo

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“This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.” Martin Amis, EXPERIENCE (2000) https://t.co/wfcTvTwK3s

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‘Tragedy and comedy, I thought we were all agreed, are the warp and woof of life' WNP Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man (1919) https://t.co/Npc36Cp4kp

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Nice to see Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April, first published in 1922, still doing well @isobel_maddison @ElizabethVAIntl @OWC_Oxford https://t.co/fcUJEpCt1r

Ann Kennedy Smith

First published in 1915, Jane Harrison's Peace With Patriotism was an important source for Virginia Woolf’s later anti-war essay, Three Guineas (1938) - see @francescawade's excellent chapters on Harrison & Woolf in Square Haunting (2020) @FaberBooks https://t.co/wVPlFbU4Za

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Looking forward to this - I'll be talking about Virginia Woolf's friendship with Pernel Strachey, @Newnham_College Principal 1927-41, and how it contributed to Woolf's A Room Of One's Own (1929) https://t.co/cYZ5rb9CCt