E. V. Lucas was taught to swim by George Bernard Shaw, heard James Barrie reading Peter Pan while it was still in manuscript, and knew virtually everyone in the London literary and publishing worlds i...
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Though he was an immensely prolific writer, the range of E. V. Lucas's sensibility was actually rather narrow. His work as an essayist and a novelist is charming but lightweight; his essays perhaps ma...
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For nearly fifty years E. V. Lucas was one of the most accomplished and respected literary men in London. As an author of books, a journalist, an editor, a bookman, and a publisher's reader, he knew n...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in 1907, Strachey delivers an appreciative review of A Swan and Her Friends.
Miss Seward's name is a familiar one to readers of eightee...
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In the following essay, Prance presents an overview of Lucas's work as a writer and editor.
On E V Lucas as a man I cannot comment because we never met, but as a writer he seems to have been...
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In the following excerpt from an article originally published in 1909, Bennett offers positive commentary on Lucas in a short review of One Day and Another.
Mr. Lucas … is a highly mysteriou...
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In the following essay, Waugh commends Lucas's abilities as a writer in a review of Cloud and Silver.
It is quite like old and happier days to find the gentle genius of Mr. E. V. Lucas still...
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In the following excerpt, Walkley offers positive comments on Genevra's Money.
There is one saying that I often wish Elia had added to his essays on Popular Fallacies: Easy writing makes har...
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In the following essay, Adcock gives a laudatory overview of Lucas's career.
For the last half-hour I have been sitting with a sheet of paper in front of me urging myself to start writing ab...
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In the following essay, Smith offers a reservedly positive assessment of Lucas.
In these hectic days, when the attitudinizing writer has invaded the pages of even the most conservative of our Ameri...
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In the following essay, Wethered describes Lucas as a writer and a person.
E. V. Lucas subtitled one of his best known anthologies, The Friendly Town, an opposite number, mainly in prose, to The Op...
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In the following essay, Swinnerton reflects on his personal acquaintance with Lucas.
Friendship with Lucas, though it could be both fluent and free, called for tact. While on the surface equable, h...
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In the following essay, Chatterjee describes Lucas's style as an essayist
As Virginia Woolf truly says, the essayist must know—that is the first essential—how to write. '...
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E(dward) V(errall) Lucas
Critical Essay by Lytton Strachey
