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BBC radio aired a play by Harold Lang and Kenneth Tynan , The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself.

Scholars of colonial discourse such as Simon Gikandi have found in her newly available narrative an avenue for exploring the complexity of the colonial subject's construction of identity, against whom to read better-known Victorian women...

Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became...

June Purvis traces the influence on EP 's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia , estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost...

JFK investigated her mother's French roots and made a television programme for BBC One about the results in April 2012. Her great-grandfather, Louis Volant, was born illegitimate in Paris, had a successful career in London...

SD chose April Fools' Day to announce her daughter's birth to the press. The Daily Mail reported that she recently made a chain-smoking appearance on BBC television and that in February 1963 she admitted to...

In 1985 JT married her second husband, Ian Curteis , a television director and dramatist known particularly for documentaries, dramatised biographies, and for challenging the left-wing hegemony at the BBC . His works include an...

Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC . During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the...

JG 's younger son, Tom, caused her terror in his teens when a large hole was discovered in his thigh bone. He recovered, however. Her eldest, Tim , after a successful career with the BBC

At sixteen he left Australia (shortly after his mother returned to England) for Brussels, where he worked in business until, in 1935, he moved to England himself. He studied art, served in the army during...

LP is married to Christopher Hawes , a fellow author and former drama teacher, who like her often works for the BBC .

Austen Kark came to hold a high position in the BBC 's overseas service. The couple's daughter, Perdita, was born in 1957. By 2004 NB had grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her husband, Austen Kark, was killed...

In her memoirs JK mentions her partner Denise Else , who is on good terms with Duffy and her daughter. Else works as a sound technician with the BBC .

VSW 's next lovers were women working professionally in the media: first was Hilda Matheson , Director of Talks for the BBC . They presumably met in connection with VSW 's first broadcast, on 18...

Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT 's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...