Sarah, and Lee. “Great LezBritain: Sarah Waters talks inspiration, adaptations at World Book Night”. AfterEllen.com, pp. 1-2.
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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
Reception | Sarah Waters | SW
had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise. |
Performance of text | Sarah Waters | She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She... |
politics | Fay Weldon | Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to... |
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... |
Publishing | Fay Weldon | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | The selection was made in conjunction with BBC
staff for a series of readings that autumn; it consisted of the work of poets born (so far as could be ascertained) since 1880, and therefore under... |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's radio play Scenes of Seduction was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW
often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International
production (1990) adapted... |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)... |
Employer | Rebecca West | |
Employer | Antonia White | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Antonia White | |
Friends, Associates | Antonia White | While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department
, AW
met Graham Greene
, Simone Weil
, and Kathleen Raine
. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 137 |
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