'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical interest in the works of other writers. She read avidly, modern poets such as T.S. Eliot, Roy Fuller, Auden and Cecil Day Lewis, and contemporary novelists, admiring in particular the work of Faulkner and Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Ivy Compton Burnett, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen. Jean Rhys's bleak, beautiful novel "Voyage in the Dark", published in the same month as [Lehmann's] "Invitation to the Waltz", had much impressed Rosamond, who invited its author to tea'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932:
'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I rather think, as I told you, that
her emotions sway in a certain way [...] I'm reading her novel to find out. Whats so
interesting is when one uncovers an emotion that the person themselves, I should say herself,
doesn't suspect. And its a sort of duty dont you think -- revealing peoples true selves to
themselves?'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
I finished The Hotel in Brooks's — not a good novel, although Eddy recommends it.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lees-Milne Print: Book
