Nicola Beauman

Nicola Beauman Order of the British Empire OBE (née Mann; born 20 June 1944) is a British biographer, journalist, and founder of Persephone Books. Quotes Lady Cynthia Asquith Cynthia was always to attribute depression to ill-health or, when she was much older, to the prevailing east wind. She never assumed it was a facet of her temperament or that her life could reasonably cause it. Cynthia Asquith illustrated Hamish Hamilton 1987 9780241123683 https://books.google.com/books?id=x5cfAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=depression+to+ill-health 73 (376 pages) Elizabeth Taylor (novelist) Elizabeth's letters to Ray give a very good idea of her literary influences. These were definitely not her mother's her favorites (Hardy, Adam Bede, Gissing) and Elizabeth has grown out of Dostoevsky, dislikes Dickens, finds Lawrence a 'bloody crosspatch' and thinks Katherine Mansfield moaned too much. 'It is easy to see who is behind me: Jane Austen & Chekhov & EM Forster & Virginia Woolf. ...'... Other important writers for her were Sterne (for his relationship to the reader), Richardson and Fielding.Above all she revered Jane Austen and Turgenev. The Other Elizabeth Taylor A Persephone life. Persephone classics illustrated Persephone Books 2009 9781906462109 247–248 (1st part of quote; 2nd part of quote; last part of quote; 444 pages; 1st edition 1993) Quotes about Nicola Beauman It’s possible, these days, to think of E. M. Forster's cultural role as the providing of stories for Merchant Ivory Productions Merchant and Ivory to make into pretty movies. For people who think that way, Nicola Beauman's new biography will be a useful corrective. Here, in a book of modest length (at last, a biography that is not longer than its subject's collected works!), is what every general reader should know about Forster's life and contacts. Samuel Hynes, A Disconnected Life (review of E. M. Forster: A Biography by Nicola Beauman) The New York Times April 3, 1994 External links Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:Biographers from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Jews from the United Kingdom Category:Journalists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1940s