Elizabeth Bibesco

Between 1921 and 1940, Bibesco published three collections of short stories, four novels, two plays and a book of poetry.<ref>Darby, Paul, Pilgrimage: The Life of Elizabeth Bibesco, pp. 100–114</ref> [[Katharine Sergeant Angell White|Katharine Angell]], reviewing ''Balloons'' for ''[[The Nation]]'' in 1923 wrote, "Elizabeth Bibesco uses for her sketches material from which [[Katherine Mansfield]] would have made short stories, and [[Henry James]], novels ... Elizabeth Bibesco has a genius for compression – the compression into a few phrases of all the details of a situation, into a few pages of the hopes and failures of a lifetime".<ref>Angell, Katharine, ''[[The Nation]]'', 4 April 1923, p. 397</ref> Her collections of short stories were reviewed on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel ''The Fir and the Palm'' was serialised in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in November and December 1924.

Between 1921 and 1940, Bibesco published three collections of short stories, four novels, two plays and a book of poetry.<ref>Darby, Paul, Pilgrimage: The Life of Elizabeth Bibesco, pp. 100–114</ref> [[Katharine Sergeant Angell White|Katharine Angell]], reviewing ''Balloons'' for ''[[The Nation]]'' in 1923 wrote, "Elizabeth Bibesco uses for her sketches material from which [[Katherine Mansfield]] would have made short stories, and [[Henry James]], novels ... Elizabeth Bibesco has a genius for compression – the compression into a few phrases of all the details of a situation, into a few pages of the hopes and failures of a lifetime".<ref>Angell, Katharine, ''[[The Nation]]'', 4 April 1923, p. 397</ref> Her collections of short stories were reviewed on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel ''The Fir and the Palm'' was serialised in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in November and December 1924.

Bibesco's last novel, ''The Romantic'', published in 1940, starts with a dedication to [[Falange Española]] founder [[Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera]], whom Bibesco had known during her stay in Madrid where her husband was Romanian ambassador (1927-31): "''To Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. I promised you a book before it was begun. It is yours now that it is finished -- Those we love die for us only when we die--''".<ref>Bibesco, Elizabeth, ''The Romantic'', William Heinemann, London, 1940. See: Constenla, Tereixa, El Pais, Madrid, 1 October 2015 & Badcock, James and Rayner, Gordon, ''The Telegraph'', London, 2 October 2015.</ref> A thorough appraisal of Bibesco's work was written by [[Elizabeth Bowen]] in an introduction to ''Haven'', the 1951 posthumous collection of Bibesco's stories, poems and aphorisms. In her essay, Bowen wrote that, "The Bibesco characters seem to be the inhabitants of a special milieu, in which the more ordinary taboos of feeling and brakes on speech do not operate."<ref>[[Elizabeth Bowen|Bowen, Elizabeth]], "Introduction to Bibesco, Elizabeth", Haven: short stories, poems, and aphorisms (1951), J. Barrie.</ref>

Bibesco's last novel, ''The Romantic'', published in 1940, starts with a dedication to [[Falange Española]] founder [[Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera]], whom Bibesco had known during her stay in Madrid where her husband was Romanian ambassador (1927-31): "To Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. I promised you a book before it was begun. It is yours now that it is finished -- Those we love die for us only when we die--".<ref>Bibesco, Elizabeth, ''The Romantic'', William Heinemann, London, 1940. See: Constenla, Tereixa, El Pais, Madrid, 1 October 2015 & Badcock, James and Rayner, Gordon, ''The Telegraph'', London, 2 October 2015.</ref> A thorough appraisal of Bibesco's work was written by [[Elizabeth Bowen]] in an introduction to ''Haven'', the 1951 posthumous collection of Bibesco's stories, poems and aphorisms. In her essay, Bowen wrote that, "The Bibesco characters seem to be the inhabitants of a special milieu, in which the more ordinary taboos of feeling and brakes on speech do not operate."<ref>[[Elizabeth Bowen|Bowen, Elizabeth]], "Introduction to Bibesco, Elizabeth", Haven: short stories, poems, and aphorisms (1951), J. Barrie.</ref>

==Final years==

==Final years==