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LITERATURE (20th century -- British). A collection of 34 autograph letters signed and 29 typed letters signed by leading writers of the 1920s, addressed to Charles Letts and Company, November 1929 (several of the letters written in the margins or on verso of a letter from Letts). The signatories include: George Bernard Shaw, Victoria Sackville-West, Francis Brett-Young, Humbert Wolfe, Hugh Walpole, G.M. Trevelyan, J.B. Priestley, Mazo de la Roche, John Middleton-Murry, Rose Macaulay, Shane Leslie, Aldous Huxley, Storm Jameson, A.P. Herbert, David Garnett, Radcliffe Hall, Harley Granville-Barker, David Garnett, Lord Dunsany, Hilaire Belloc, Somerset Maugham, Edgar Wallace, Michael Arlen, Henry Williamson, and other successful and popular writers of the day.
Replies to a letter inviting the authors to say by which of their published works they would prefer to be judged, and why, the answers for inclusion in Letts' 'Booklovers Diary'.
Shaw gives a characteristically pithy riposte, 'All of them' and 'Quote what you like; but don't bother me about it'. Others include Vita Sackville-West with several titles but adding 'I hate all the novels with which I started writing' and 'Please note that my name isn't Violet'. Aldous Huxley: 'I prefer to be judged by my novel Point Counter Point because it seems to me completer, both as a statement of ideas & as a psychological study than anything I have hitherto written'. Hilaire Belloc: 'I am so averse to publicity - perhaps exaggeratedly so - that I never do these things'. Radcliffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness, because events following its publication have strengthened her conviction that 'such a novel was badly needed ... in view of the deplorable ignorance which prevails upon its subject'. Somerset Maugham: 'I like Of Human Bondage best of all my books because I put into it pretty well all I knew ... and so disembarrassed myself of a great many painful things'.
Replies to a letter inviting the authors to say by which of their published works they would prefer to be judged, and why, the answers for inclusion in Letts' 'Booklovers Diary'.
Shaw gives a characteristically pithy riposte, 'All of them' and 'Quote what you like; but don't bother me about it'. Others include Vita Sackville-West with several titles but adding 'I hate all the novels with which I started writing' and 'Please note that my name isn't Violet'. Aldous Huxley: 'I prefer to be judged by my novel Point Counter Point because it seems to me completer, both as a statement of ideas & as a psychological study than anything I have hitherto written'. Hilaire Belloc: 'I am so averse to publicity - perhaps exaggeratedly so - that I never do these things'. Radcliffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness, because events following its publication have strengthened her conviction that 'such a novel was badly needed ... in view of the deplorable ignorance which prevails upon its subject'. Somerset Maugham: 'I like Of Human Bondage best of all my books because I put into it pretty well all I knew ... and so disembarrassed myself of a great many painful things'.
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