Rosamond Nina Lehmann, A Note in Music

Wendy Pollard (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 1930

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Rosamond Lehmann's A Note in Music suffered greatly, as second novels so often do, from the succès fou of her Dusty Answer (1927). It remains the least-known of her novels, and the least appreciated. The plot revolves around a sextet of characters, two unhappily married couples, generally referred to as “middle-aged” although only in their thirties, and two younger visitors to their northern town, a sophisticated brother and sister. No dramatic events unfold, but by the end of the novel when the visitors leave, a glimmer of hope is perceptible within both marriages.

Despite, or possibly because of, having been chosen as the monthly choice of the recently established (and still controversial) Book …

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Citation: Pollard, Wendy. "A Note in Music". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 May 2003 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7070, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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