Rosamund Lehmann
ITH the chiselled perfection of young Queens who now in stone look down from the walls of ancient churches, Rosamund Lehmann has always fascinated me as one who symbolised the world of beauty and of passion. The art was there, and in retrospect I can still see the fields waving with the precision and calm of things seen through glass, but I find myself impatient with a melancholy which does not issue from a genuinely tragic situation. What the author of Dusty Answer really felt was not the tragedy of the world but the weight of her own loneliness. Of things like this she said curiously little in the BBC series My First Novel (heard from 3YC), when describ-
ing her own efforts to write and publish the book, but concentrated rather on its merits and faults as a piece of work quite divorced from her own more intimate thoughts and feelings. The earnest note, the over-earnest note which may be mistaken for depth, and which still characterises Miss Lehmann, was in distinct contrast to the boldness with which Sir Compton Mackenzie both wrote and zestfully sent forth his almost ever-re-turning manuscript The Passionate
Elopement.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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198Rosamund Lehmann New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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