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Occupation Germaine Greer
In about 1971 GG began working as a broadcaster-journalist for mainline as well as fringe or underground publications. This aspect of her work included frequent appearances on BBC programmes, where she continues to appear in...
Occupation Jan Struther
Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC .
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray.
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Occupation P. D. James
She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been...
Occupation George Orwell
GO organised and produced talks broadcast by the Far Eastern section of the BBC (largely to India), on topics ranging from the war to English poetry.
Davison, Peter. George Orwell: A Literary Life. St Martin’s Press.
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Material Conditions of Writing Antonia White
AW was given three weeks to produce a booklet about her employer, the BBC : BBC at War.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
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Material Conditions of Writing Alison Uttley
AU , whose experience of public speaking had included a lecture on Writing for Children, spoke bravely on BBC TV's Book Programme in the month of her ninety-first birthday.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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Material Conditions of Writing Carol Shields
While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto , CS wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC , and over the...
Literary Setting Maureen Duffy
Albert Square is fictional, a place immediately recognisable to most of MD 's readers as the home of the BBC soap opera East Enders. MD impartially investigates both popular and unpopular phenomena: Boadicea and...
Literary responses Muriel Spark
The London theatre critics were scathing, with only two exceptions (though one of these, Harold Hobson , carried a lot of weight). Pamela Hansford Johnson trounced the play on the BBC 's radio programme The...
Literary responses Anna Leonowens
Twentieth-century responses are often critical of AL 's books, and have questioned the validity of her reports of harem life. Ian Grimble's BBC production called AL a mischief maker, a squalid little girl, ....
Literary responses Nina Bawden
Sheila Mitchell , commenting on this novel on BBC radio, called it one of the best she had read about the family situation as we have it nowadays.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
Rosemary Dinnage in a Times Literary Supplement review contrasted contemporary openness about childbirth with the continuing block on mentioning menstruation. She cited a recent example in which Margaret Drabble had mentioned the subject on BBC
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
A BBC broadcast about Victorian women hymn-writers in 2003 offered the unequivocal opinion that the question opening the poem's ultimate stanza—What shall I bring him, poor as I am?—is not simply an expression...
Literary responses Ethel Wilson
The reviews in England were positive. Seán O'Faoláin wrote in the BBC journal the Listener that The Equations of Love exemplified how English ought to be written, and called EWone of the most charming...
Literary responses Harriett Mozley
Critic Kathleen Tillotson gave a talk on the BBC Third Programme entitled Newman's Sister Harriett and The Fairy Bower. Neither this nor her essay published in 1965 produced any revival of scholarly interest in HM .
Tillotson, Kathleen et al. “Harriett Mozley”. Mid-Victorian Studies, Athlone Press, pp. 38-48.
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