Word: skipton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pamela Hansford Johnson is the wife of C. P. Snow, and a novelist in her own right-mostly on the light side. In her present book, she lampoons pop culture, black comedy, lady poetasters and the criminal mind. Several of the characters appeared in her earlier books, The Unspeakable Skipton and Night and Silence Who Is Here? The comedy is very high. In fact, so high it is almost invisible...
...first difficulty was Philip," recalls Pamela Hansford Johnson, wife of British Novelist C. P. Snow, and herself a noted novelist (The Unspeakable Skipton). Their son Philip was eight last fall when the Snows taught at the University of California's Berkeley campus; they had to find a school for him, and "he would have hated to cool his heels in an ordinary American school." What she delightedly found, reported Novelist Johnson, was "a very odd school indeed." It was San Rafael's booming 3R school, and odd was the word. How can a school that uses the antique...
...Snow married one of his earliest literary critics, handsome Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, whose books, largely about marriage and the private worlds of modern people, are less ambitious but far better crafted than her husband's; her most recent: The Unspeakable Skipton, a witty, waspish caricature of the famed adventurer, "Baron Corvo." The Snows share a ten-room London flat and a 6½-year-old son. Snow likes to be in the worldly swim and throws parties conspicuously free of fellow novelists. Sir Charles is a shade stuffy about most 20th century authors; of another practicing panoramist, Lawrence...