Deirdre David
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre David |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | David |
| SIGNATURE | DAVID D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Haunted by the Thirties
At the beginning of World War 2, Pamela, Neil, and her mother Amy moved to Laleham, a village on the Thames. Shortly thereafter, Neil joined the Army and was posted to India; and on New Year’s Day 1941 Pamela gave birth to her son Andrew Morven. While coping with rationing, the sound of bombers overhead, and the red sky of London in the Blitz, she continued to write. Her novel Winter Quarters deals with the temporary settlement of an artillery ba…
The Rise
Deeply troubled by social injustice, Pamela became an active member of the Labour Party, writing newsletters and marching in protests against the Spanish Civil War and Franco. In 1935 she met an Australian journalist, Gordon Neil Stewart, whom she married in 1936; her mother, Amy, lived with them after the wedding. Neil and Pamela travelled together in France just before the war (where Neil had lived for a few years after leaving Australia) and s…
Pamela Hansford Johnson
This literary biography traces the life of Pamela Hansford Johnson from her birth in a theatrical family to her death as the widow of C.P. Snow. A prolific writer, she published almost thirty novels, reviewed fiction for major newspapers, and made regular appearances on BBC cultural programmes. She lived through tumultuous changes in British life—1930s political unrest, World War 2, and postwar austerity: social changes that form the background f…
Prologue
Pamela Hansford Johnson’s childhood was spent in a theatrical household in Battersea. Her grandfather had been treasurer to Sir Henry Irving, and her mother and her aunts at one time or another were all on the stage. Her father was largely absent when she was growing up since he was a Chief Railway Storekeeper on the African Gold Coast. He died when she was eleven years old. She attended a Clapham grammar school where she was an excellent student…
Snow
In 1949, Pamela and Snow travelled to Venice for an international meeting of PEN. In the course of a magical week, they admitted their love for each other and Pamela returned to London determined to ask Neil for a divorce, whereupon Neil confessed that he was having an affair. After a tumultuous few months in which Snow wavered in committing himself exclusively to Pamela, they married in July 1950. Pamela had no knowledge of his complicated invol…
George Eliot's ?Trump
In the last twenty-five years or so Harriet Martineau has emerged from the margins of Victorian writing to become the fertile subject of conferences, anthologies, and critical biography, her books on political economy, America, Eastern travel, and life in the sickroom (among many other topics) now nicely ensconced in the canon of Victorian prose. She is assigned in classes on women's writing, imperialism, and transatlantic studies, and her books …
She Who Must Be Obeyed
E 5 rin O'Connor's sophisticated call for a reassessment, to be undertaken honestly and dispassionately as possible, of project of postcolonial criticism as it has been practiced over the last two decades (240) is welcome and timely. But her own reassessment disappoints. Smothered by passionate polemic, the plausible indictment of Gayatri Spivak's reliance on fantastic reach of marginal details (227) to make her influential argument aboutJane Eyr…
Imperial Chintz
I N OCTOBER 1856, the wife of the Governor General of India noted her satisfaction with recent changes at Government House in Calcutta: “I believe it would look rather nice even as an English country-house, so marvelously is it improved by 450 yards of rose-chintz, a great many arm-chairs, small round tables, drawings etc., and flowerpots in number” (Allen 34). Having arrived in Calcutta in February of that year, Lady Charlotte Canning wasted no …
Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction . Margaret Kirkham Reason over Passion
Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy
Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England
"Ideologies of Patriarchy, Feminism, and Fiction in "The Odd Women
George Gissing's The Odd Women begins with the death of a father, an event that can be read as the emblematic demise of the Victorian patriarch, and ends with the birth of his granddaughter, perhaps the birth of a brave New Woman. But this is no easy fable in which oppressive patriarchy is vanquished by liberating feminism, nor, for that matter, where feminism is chillingly discredited by the chosen celibacy of its most aggressive spokeswoman, Rh…
She Who Must Be Obeyed
E 5 rin O'Connor's sophisticated call for a reassessment, to be undertaken honestly and dispassionately as possible, of project of postcolonial criticism as it has been practiced over the last two decades (240) is welcome and timely. But her own reassessment disappoints. Smothered by passionate polemic, the plausible indictment of Gayatri Spivak's reliance on fantastic reach of marginal details (227) to make her influential argument aboutJane Eyr…
"Ideologies of Patriarchy, Feminism, and Fiction in "The Odd Women
George Gissing's The Odd Women begins with the death of a father, an event that can be read as the emblematic demise of the Victorian patriarch, and ends with the birth of his granddaughter, perhaps the birth of a brave New Woman. But this is no easy fable in which oppressive patriarchy is vanquished by liberating feminism, nor, for that matter, where feminism is chillingly discredited by the chosen celibacy of its most aggressive spokeswoman, Rh…
Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy
Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England
Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction . Margaret Kirkham Reason over Passion
Imperial Chintz
I N OCTOBER 1856, the wife of the Governor General of India noted her satisfaction with recent changes at Government House in Calcutta: “I believe it would look rather nice even as an English country-house, so marvelously is it improved by 450 yards of rose-chintz, a great many arm-chairs, small round tables, drawings etc., and flowerpots in number” (Allen 34). Having arrived in Calcutta in February of that year, Lady Charlotte Canning wasted no …
She Who Must Be Obeyed
E 5 rin O'Connor's sophisticated call for a reassessment, to be undertaken honestly and dispassionately as possible, of project of postcolonial criticism as it has been practiced over the last two decades (240) is welcome and timely. But her own reassessment disappoints. Smothered by passionate polemic, the plausible indictment of Gayatri Spivak's reliance on fantastic reach of marginal details (227) to make her influential argument aboutJane Eyr…
George Eliot's ?Trump
In the last twenty-five years or so Harriet Martineau has emerged from the margins of Victorian writing to become the fertile subject of conferences, anthologies, and critical biography, her books on political economy, America, Eastern travel, and life in the sickroom (among many other topics) now nicely ensconced in the canon of Victorian prose. She is assigned in classes on women's writing, imperialism, and transatlantic studies, and her books …
Haunted by the Thirties
At the beginning of World War 2, Pamela, Neil, and her mother Amy moved to Laleham, a village on the Thames. Shortly thereafter, Neil joined the Army and was posted to India; and on New Year’s Day 1941 Pamela gave birth to her son Andrew Morven. While coping with rationing, the sound of bombers overhead, and the red sky of London in the Blitz, she continued to write. Her novel Winter Quarters deals with the temporary settlement of an artillery ba…
The Rise
Deeply troubled by social injustice, Pamela became an active member of the Labour Party, writing newsletters and marching in protests against the Spanish Civil War and Franco. In 1935 she met an Australian journalist, Gordon Neil Stewart, whom she married in 1936; her mother, Amy, lived with them after the wedding. Neil and Pamela travelled together in France just before the war (where Neil had lived for a few years after leaving Australia) and s…
Pamela Hansford Johnson
This literary biography traces the life of Pamela Hansford Johnson from her birth in a theatrical family to her death as the widow of C.P. Snow. A prolific writer, she published almost thirty novels, reviewed fiction for major newspapers, and made regular appearances on BBC cultural programmes. She lived through tumultuous changes in British life—1930s political unrest, World War 2, and postwar austerity: social changes that form the background f…
Prologue
Pamela Hansford Johnson’s childhood was spent in a theatrical household in Battersea. Her grandfather had been treasurer to Sir Henry Irving, and her mother and her aunts at one time or another were all on the stage. Her father was largely absent when she was growing up since he was a Chief Railway Storekeeper on the African Gold Coast. He died when she was eleven years old. She attended a Clapham grammar school where she was an excellent student…
Snow
In 1949, Pamela and Snow travelled to Venice for an international meeting of PEN. In the course of a magical week, they admitted their love for each other and Pamela returned to London determined to ask Neil for a divorce, whereupon Neil confessed that he was having an affair. After a tumultuous few months in which Snow wavered in committing himself exclusively to Pamela, they married in July 1950. Pamela had no knowledge of his complicated invol…
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