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CORK STREET, NEXT TO THE HATTER'S by Pamela Hansford Johnson. 274 pages. Scribner...
English women: Queen Elizabeth II is out (although she is a distinct possibility as German-of-the-year), and so are Mrs. Harold Wilson and Princess Margaret (who won't be here until November). But there must be someone: Ivy Compton-Burnett? Lady Snow (Pamela Hansford Johnson)?? Iris Murdoch...
Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. A deft satire about a rich New England college (which is curiously like a large industrial foundation) and a charming English scholar who can't get enough of the subsidized way of life...
Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. A charming, lazy British scholar arrives for a sabbatical year at a well-endowed New England college and discovers that it offers just the sinecure he has been looking for. An acid satire on the university-foundation circuit, written by the wife of Britain's Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, who was a visiting fellow at Connecticut's Wesleyan College...
...eggheads. As such, it is the latest member of the poison ivy league founded by Mary McCarthy (Groves of Academe), Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin) and Randall Jarrell (Pictures from an Institution). It may or may not be patterned on Wesleyan University's Institute of Advanced Studies, where Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson spent some time with her husband Sir Charles Snow as visiting British fellows...