Laura Del-Rivo, Speedy and Queen Kong

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2004

Places

United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Laura Del-Rivo (b. 1934) wrote her third novel, Speedy and Queen Kong, between 1984 and 1988 (according to a note on its inside back cover), but it was only published (by Paupers’ Press in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies) in 2004, 37 years after the appearance of her second novel, Daffodil on the Pavement (1967; republished as Animals (1970)) – a very long gap. In those years, Del-Rivo had fallen from public view as an author, but she had continued to write and supported herself by running a clothes stall in Portobello Road market (where she can still be found on Fridays and Saturdays). Speedy, a vivid and inventive novel, draws on her experience as a street market trader – for example, Jack …

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Speedy and Queen Kong". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 September 2013 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35058, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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