Francis Wyndham first book of short stories, Out of the War, was published in 1975. He is at present working on a second collection. On 18 November, Virago are publishing three of Ada Leverson’s novels – Love’s Shadow, Tenterhooks and Love at Second Sight – in one volume, entitled The Little Ottleys.
I first met Francis Wyndham in 1968, when I went to the Sunday Times Magazine looking for a job. A thunderstorm in the Gray’s Inn Road had soaked my cheap lightweight blue suit, bought in...
In The Other Garden Francis Wyndham manages a classic form, the first-person novella, with great delicacy and originality. His first person, as in his collection of short stories Mrs Henderson,...
Few things are easier to recognise or harder to define than the way humour works in art. It is only incidentally to do with making us laugh. Being funny is a methodical process and a localising...
Jean Rhys always said, and certainly believed, that she didn’t want to be a writer. She only wrote, she said, because she was unhappy, and when she was happy, as she was in her twenty years...
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