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Reception | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Reception | Liz Lochhead | Before she had published a collected volume of her verse, LL
won a BBC Radio Scotland
poetry prize for Revelation and Poem for Other Poor Fools. Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16. 13 Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58. 643-4 |
Reception | Malorie Blackman | While Blackman's publisher was seeking a US contract for Noughts and Crosses, the terrorist attacks of 7 September made a fictional Liberation Militia into an untouchable idea. The book did not appear in the... |
Reception | Barbara Pym | |
Reception | Mary Stewart | The novel was adapted for television in 1991 when the BBC
filmed six episodes, which were then released together on video as Merlin of the Crystal Cave. The series was directed by Michael Darlow |
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... |
Reception | Liz Lochhead | The initial version of Mary and the Monster was not well received. LL
quotes the reviewer from the Birmingham Evening News as saying I'd rather be at the dentist—to which she adds, so would... |
Reception | Malorie Blackman | In 2005 MB
received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle
for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009... |
Reception | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
's poetry was broadcast on the BBC
's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1987, a CBE in... |
Reception | Edith Somerville | ES
's nephew Nevill Coghill
broadcast a talk about her for the BBC
: she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross
. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 274-6 |
Reception | Claire Luckham | Tremendously popular with audiences, the play was performed in several cities in Britain and internationally, besides being adapted for BBC
television. In Japan, audiences saw the play as a tragedy about a woman's inability... |
Reception | Olivia Manning | It was a disappointment to OM
when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis
, was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning? Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 2 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 325 |
Reception | Enid Blyton | Derek McCulloch
of the BBC
, producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin
reiterating that no material by EB
was ever to be used. O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol. 34 , No. 21, pp. 5-8. 5 |
Reception | Frances Horovitz |
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