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“... When​ Pamela HansfordJohnson died in 1981, the New York Times described her as ‘one of England’s best-known novelists’. I knew her name, or thought I did, but couldn’t recall the title of any of her books. Her 27 novels are mostly out of print. The New York Times briskly sets them aside, along with their author: Her death came almost a year after that of C ...”

“... Pamela Hansford who​ ? When I asked friends and family, they vaguely knew the name but couldn’t place it – until I said she was married to C.P. Snow and then they vaguely remembered that too. They were much clearer about him: the two cultures argument, and Leavis’s vituperation, and some novels revolving around Cambridge colleges ...”

“... and dull in the experimental novel Coe turns into entertainment. He is writing a biography of B.S. Johnson – whom he admires – but he writes more like Pamela HansfordJohnson. He has established for himself a set of stylistic conventions – conversational smooth ...”

“... that skulduggery should escape its penalty) that the true facts of the case are anybody’s guess. Pamela HansfordJohnson (in a British Council pamphlet) says one thing, and Robert Liddell (in The Novels of I. Compton-Burnett) says she is quite wrong. Close study suggests that Liddell is right. Or consider again ...”

“... To call him ‘C.P.’, as some did even then, no doubt implied a special relationship. It was Pamela HansfordJohnson who put her foot down, when they were married in 1950, and who decided that he was to be called Charles; in relation to any earlier period the name is an innocent anachronism, which has the ...”

“... himself – ‘the shape of a boy, and a funny boy at that’, as he told his early lover Pamela HansfordJohnson. ‘I’m like a baby in the dark,’ he explained to Henry Treece, an Apocalyptic poet who wrote the first critical book about him, and with whom Thomas had a long and revealing ...”

“... of a writer who respects the art of fiction. A different sort of fictive impulse was exercised by Pamela HansfordJohnson when, reviewing the behaviour of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley on trial for the Moors Murders, she wrote her thoughts On Iniquity. Here was a perception of evil that distorted the more trivial ...”