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Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Bellerby | Two months after her mother's death, Bellerby's husband
gave up his academic post and retired to live in a village near Cambridge. He joined the Oxford Group
(later known as Moral Rearmament
), became a... |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet... |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | This time the male protagonist is Sir Anthony Nugent, Governor of the Punjab, and whereas Bell's first heroine came from a leisured life on family money, the new one has been playing a public... |
politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | The narrator of her novel Afternoon of a Good Woman, 1976, is also a magistrate. NB
wrote, I was a political appointment, in the sense that the local Labour Party
, asked to put... |
Textual Features | Nina Bawden | NB
calls her central character, Elizabeth Jourdelay, submerged but battling. Elizabeth deceives her husband, not because she has a lover, but because she is attending a Labour Party
meeting. Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago. 173 |
Textual Features | Nina Bawden | This is in part a memoir about personal grief. She juxtaposes the material details of loss (the watch still going, the unnaturally tidy desk), with the intimacy of memory, the abandoned plans for the future... |
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