Storm Jameson to her literary agent (1957): 'Please kill off some literary mandarin while I’m away, and pass me his pigtail. I have mandarin longings in me, and no longing to write any more novels’

‘I wish I was Agatha Christie or a polar bear’- Storm Jameson, letter to her agent, 1962

134 today. And still twittering…

In a divided United States, Hannah Arendt foresaw violence. Was she right?

newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es…

Oooh that’s a turn up for the books isn’t it?! The Guardian

“Do you work in business?'

'No, I'm homeless. I'm a homeless person.'

Excruciating.

The grave of Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903), the Pitman's Poet’, buried alongside his wife Sarah Anne, in East Gateshead Cemetery. Among his admirers were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Carlyle, Holman Hunt, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Oscar Wilde and WB Yeats.

#Cuba : Pen International condemns the detention of musician and activist, Maykel Castillo Perez on 18 May 2021, and support an international investigation.
pen-international.org/news/cuba-we-c…

Women Writers Season: Zora Neale Hurston's wonderful short stories. Live online lecture and seminar with Noreen O'Connor.

• Sat. 7 August 2021, 6 pm.
literaturecambridge.co.uk/women

‘a Mothers' Meeting, in Yorkshire at any rate, could give points in revolutionary outlook to any nest of singing rebels in Bloomsbury or elsewhere.’ - Storm Jameson ‘Documents’ (1937) #Yorkshire #modernism #womenwriters

‘A society gets the fiction it deserves; social rottenness breeds rotten fiction as it breed slums, Hollywood, war and disease.’

Storm on men: ‘For an era he has had a free hand. He has made an unholy mess of things. Nothing can excuse him for his cities or his trousers.’

My old and very dear friend Hermon:

Well it’s about time 🙄

I asked Deirdre Flynn if she wanted to write this anonymously, it’s scary to write as yourself and honestly. She was brave enough to write this: “I’ve taken every contract .. hourly, zero hour, part-time, full-time.. at the end of every month .. my wage won’t cover my expenses.”

Jennifer Birkett wrote a really nice review of my book, which is wonderful but also feels strangely cyclical because when I’d just started my PhD, I reviewed hers! ❤️Writing the Nations at War: Storm Jameson and the Hope of European Unity tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

It took the British hundred years to forget never to trust our health, livelihoods, and the future of our youth to the lazy fantasies of rich schoolboys & their delusions of superior intelligence. And about 8 months to reminded of the grotesque price to be paid for forgetting.

Well it’s about time somebody did...

'But then a Mothers' Meeting, in Yorkshire at any rate,could give points in revolutionary outlook to any nest of sining rebels in Bloomsbury or elsewhere’

Someone has written a book about my World War Two novels. It better be good 🙄