“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | BBC Radio 4
broadcast RT
's play One Night In Winter. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Textual Production | Liz Lochhead | |
Textual Production | Ann Oakley | It was televised by the BBC
amid much media hyperbole. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo. xiv Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Cochrane, Kira. “Ann Oakley: ’Barbara Wootton was too visionary’”. theguardian.com. |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Gardens of Eden, MW
's radio play based on her own poems, was aired in 1987 on BBC Radio 4
with music by Michael Nyman
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. |
Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights... |
Textual Features | Catherine Cookson | In the particularly teasingly titled Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly, 1977, a blind girl staying with her grandfather discovers a kidnapping. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable. 272 |
Textual Features | Kathleen Jamie | This collection keeps in mind the Scots element in the title as well as the birth element. It interprets the latter broadly to include various metaphorical kinds of birth and renewal. KJ
writes here in... |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC
radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up... |
Textual Features | Elspeth Huxley | For The Times in the 1930s her subjects included the gold rush at Kakamega in Kenya's only tropical rain forest, and New Deal farming in the American South. In March 1938 she embarked... |
Textual Features | Anne Ridler | The third play, The Mask was inferior as a stage play, in AR
's later judgement, to its radio version (in which she collaborated with her cousin Robin Milford
, who wrote the music, and... |
Textual Features | Olivia Manning | The Man Who Stole a Tiger strikes a different note. It begins in Jerusalem but ranges as far as the Congo. A scrawny, tubercular soldier with a criminal record, presented without sympathy or understanding... |
Textual Features | Lesley Storm | This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean
, who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist
Russia... |
Textual Features | Alice Meynell | The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells. Larkin, Philip, editor. The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse. Clarendon Press. 34 |
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