Nicola Beauman

Nicola Beauman OBE (née Mann; born 20 June 1944) is a British biographer, journalist, and founder of Persephone Books.

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Cynthia was always to attribute depression to ill-health or, when she was much older, to the prevailing east wind. She never assumed it was a facet of her temperament or that her life could reasonably cause it.
- Cynthia Asquith (illustrated ed.). Hamish Hamilton. 1987. p. 73. ISBN 9780241123683. (376 pages)

Elizabeth's letters to Ray give a very good idea of her literary influences. These were definitely not her mother's her favorites (Hardy, Adam Bede, Gissing) and Elizabeth has grown out of Dostoevsky, dislikes Dickens, finds Lawrence a 'bloody crosspatch' and thinks Katherine Mansfield moaned too much. 'It is easy to see who is behind me: Jane Austen & Chekhov & EM Forster & Virginia Woolf. ...'
... Other important writers for her were Sterne (for his relationship to the reader), Richardson and Fielding.
Above all she revered Jane Austen and Turgenev.
- The Other Elizabeth Taylor. A Persephone life. Persephone classics (illustrated ed.). Persephone Books. 2009. pp. 247–248. ISBN 9781906462109. (1st part of quote; 2nd part of quote; last part of quote; 444 pages; 1st edition 1993)

It’s possible, these days, to think of E. M. Forster's cultural role as the providing of stories for Merchant and Ivory to make into pretty movies. For people who think that way, Nicola Beauman's new biography will be a useful corrective. Here, in a book of modest length (at last, a biography that is not longer than its subject's collected works!), is what every general reader should know about Forster's life and contacts.
- Samuel Hynes, (April 3, 1994) "A Disconnected Life (review of E. M. Forster: A Biography by Nicola Beauman)". The New York Times.