Pamela Hansford Johnson Summary

Among modern novelists, Pamela Hansford Johnson is likely to be remembered best for her stylistic lucidity and psychological acumen. In an age of experimental novelistic techniques often intended to d... Read more

Critical Essay by Desmond Shawe-taylor Miss Johnson is distinguishable from the many intelligent novelists of the day by the fact that she is not in the least afraid of people who are ordinary and goo... Read more

Critical Essay by John Raymond Catherine Carter once again raises the question of the historical and the "period" novel. Where does the one end and the other begin? One thinks of a �... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Miss Pamela Hansford Johnson is a very cool and intelligent writer, and if she always promises a little more than she performs, her performance is still... Read more

Critical Essay by Walter Allen The Unspeakable Skipton represents a new and perhaps unexpected development in Pamela Hansford Johnson's talents. Together with The Last Resort, which appeared in... Read more

Critical Essay by Whitney Balliett Two recent English novels—Pamela Hansford Johnson's "The Unspeakable Skipton" and Penelope Mortimer's "Cave of Ice,"... Read more

Critical Essay by Susan M. Black [In The Humbler Creation] Miss Johnson's style and her material are in tune—almost too much in tune. Only her descriptive, figurative and symbolic use of... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement One need not be a Christian to believe in Hell—to be aware, that is, of an irredeemable blackness of soul from which there is no escape, for whic... Read more

Critical Essay by Gerald Sykes Early in 1960 Pamela Hansford Johnson … published a remarkably effective novel called "The Humbler Creation." It was written in the Victorian tradit... Read more

Critical Essay by A. S. Byatt Reading [The Survival of the Fittest] is a curious experience; vague and casual from moment to moment, it is nevertheless compulsive and cumulatively gripping. Its mood i... Read more

Critical Essay by Dorothy L. Parker [In "The Honours Board"] as in so many middling-good English novels …, a tidy group of characters has been summoned for some contrived, artific... Read more

Critical Essay by Gillian Wilce Already widely praised, A Bonfire does possess those qualities noted by others—a modest style conveying an honest perception of the way things were in the Twenti... Read more

Critical Essay by Jane Spence Southron "The Monument" is a novel reflecting a world on the brink of unimaginable disaster. If you had not before read a word by this young English novelis... Read more

Critical Essay by Ishrat Lindblad Any critic faced with the task of defining the nature of Pamela Hansford Johnson's novels finds that, like many of her characters, it belongs to a class that i... Read more

Critical Essay by Jane Spence Southron ["Too Dear for My Possessing"] is a book of queer enchantment; of strange, astringent realism; a book stripped utterly of sentimentality but deep w... Read more

Critical Essay by R. Ellis Roberts Sidney Nichols was the hindquarters of the famous horse which, with his partner Benny Castelli in front, paraded the musichalls of England in the years after the las... Read more

Critical Essay by D. S. Savage An Avenue of Stone is a skilful piece of contemporary reporting about our post-war lives, or the lives of a few selected personages whom Miss Johnson happens to have had... Read more