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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service
website. |
Employer | Joan Aiken | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joan Aiken | At five JA
bought a notebook with a gift of two shillings, to do her writing in. As a child she was a great spinner of fantasy tales, first for herself and later for her... |
Textual Production | Joan Aiken | |
Textual Production | Naomi Alderman | NA
's short stories have appeared in the magazine Prospect, on BBC Radio 4
, and in various anthologies. Alderman, Naomi. Naomi Alderman. Novels and Games. http://www.naomialderman.com/about/. |
Textual Production | Naomi Alderman | NA
says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith
's White Teeth, Monica Ali
's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson
's Oranges... |
Textual Production | Naomi Alderman | She also wrote Borrowed Time, 2011, a novel which is a spin-off from the BBC
's Doctor Who series, which she regards as fan fiction. Armitstead, Claire. “Naomi Alderman. A life in . . ”. theguardian.com. |
Textual Production | Naomi Alderman | |
Literary responses | Cecil Frances Alexander | This hymn received the seal of approval from American evangelist Ira David Sankey
, who sang it on the site of Calvary Hill in Jerusalem. McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 10 , No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, pp. 101-9. 108 |
Textual Production | Margery Allingham | While she was working on Dance of the Years, in March 1942, MA
spoke on the BBC Overseas Service
about the changes wartime was making in traditional village life. (She had been named as... |
Performance of text | Daisy Ashford | In July 1919, DA
did a reading of a chapter of the book at a private party, which went better than anticipated, despite her nerves. She was offered an opportunity to do a lecture tour... |
Occupation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution)
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 311 |
Employer | Diana Athill | |
Textual Production | Diana Athill | DA
's contributions to various periodicals sometimes enlarge on Stet in describing famous writers and her publishing relationships with them. In 2000 she wrote for the TLS on Jean Rhys
and for Granta on V. S. Naipaul |
Reception | Jane Austen | The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC
has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels... |