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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Performance of text | Laura Riding | |
Textual Production | Jean Rhys | Rhys heard from a friend in October 1956 that the BBC
were looking for her regarding a feature production of the novel. She wrote to them to encourage their plans, as it had been seven... |
Textual Production | Jean Rhys | The production was commissioned by the BBC
, and took place at the Royal Festival Hall
in London. It was conducted by Colin Davis
, with Meriel Dickinson
as soloist. The work was later... |
Performance of text | Jean Rhys | Selma vas Diaz
performed her dramatic monologue adapted from JR
's novel Good Morning, Midnight, with music by Roberto Gerhard
, on the BBC
's Third Programme. Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland. 151 |
Other Life Event | Jean Rhys | An actress, Selma vas Diaz
, had adapted Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight as a radio play and needed her permission to perform it for a BBC
broadcast. A public performance had already been set for... |
Textual Production | Jean Rhys | Diaz needed the author's permission for the performance, and on November 5th she put an advertisement in the New Statesman to find her. At this point, Rhys was living in obscurity in the country, and... |
Literary responses | Mary Renault | |
Friends, Associates | Eleanor Rathbone | Both these two (Fry and Oakeley
) remained Rathbone's close friends. In a BBC
broadcast in 1956, Margery Fry
recalled one of her discussions with ER
on the social and professional possibilities open to educated... |
Publishing | Ann Quin | AQ
published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 231 Sewell, Brocard, and Colin Wilson. Like Black Swans: Some People and Themes. Tabb House. 186 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | |
Occupation | Barbara Pym | This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt
observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as... |
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... |
Reception | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 325 |
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