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Wealth and Poverty | Barbara Pym | By the date of her retirement, Pym's annual salary was a low £1,764. She and her sister Hilary lived on this and on Hilary's income as a BBC
producer. Pym's books had at this date... |
Travel | Elizabeth Bowen | This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 141 |
Travel | Rumer Godden | |
Travel | Ella K. Maillart | They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice. Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php. |
Travel | Freya Stark | She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC
and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons). |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Kennedy | In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale... |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | JK
continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003. Kay, Jackie. “Wish I was here”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 50-3. 50 Kay, Jackie. “Short story endings”. Mslexia, Vol. 20 , pp. 44-5. 45 |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | She was commissioned to write this play both by the vicar of St Mary's Church inOxford, and by the BBC
Third Programme. It was performed at St Mary's (the UniversityChurch, and the actual scene... |
Textual Production | Andrea Levy | Levy says she began work on this novel after, as an adult, she at last got her mother talking about the earlier, Jamaican part of her life. At first she was very nervous writing a... |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | H. R. Millar
did another set of illustrations for the book, somewhat derivative of those of Pryse. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 343 |
Textual Production | Buchi Emecheta | In 1987 BE
published Family Bargain, a book for schoolchildren commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation
. Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research. 66 Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 128: 54 |
Textual Production | Stevie Smith | SS
was interviewed by Derek Hart
for the BBC
Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet. “BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4. |
Textual Production | Fay Weldon | It began as an idea floated to the BBC
in 1985, before such formalities as a synopsis were required. Its author had suppposed it of rather local interest (for recipients of housing benefit in the... |
Textual Production | Alison Fell | The National Library of Scotland
holds a collection of AF
's diaries, notebooks, and drafts of poems, novels, plays, and radio and film scripts, audio recordings, programmes for BBC Radio Scotland
, letters, and photos... |