“Obituary: Miss E. Arnot Robertson”. Times, p. 12.
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Reception | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Occupation | E. Arnot Robertson | During the Second World War, EAR
worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The... |
Other Life Event | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Textual Production | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Reception | Mary Robinson | A conference at the University of Warwick
commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of MR
's death; Stuart Curran
gave a plenary address and Jacqueline M. Labbe
spoke about Robinson on the BBC
's Woman's Hour. Curran, Stuart. Email about Mary Robinson to Isobel Grundy. Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Mary Robinson’s Bicentennial”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 3-8. 3 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | A BBC
broadcast about Victorian women hymn-writers in 2003 offered the unequivocal opinion that the question opening the poem's ultimate stanza—What shall I bring him, poor as I am?—is not simply an expression... |
Family and Intimate relationships | J. K. Rowling | JFK investigated her mother's French roots and made a television programme for BBC One
about the results in April 2012. Her great-grandfather, Louis Volant, was born illegitimate in Paris, had a successful career in London... |
Performance of text | Naomi Royde-Smith | A debate between NRS
and Compton Mackenzie
was held under the auspices of the Drama League
, and broadcast live on BBC
radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art... |
Employer | Berta Ruck | |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | Television was proposed to her doubtfully as a medium so new to me, Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson. 184 |
Textual Production | Berta Ruck | Shortly after this BR
was invited to give a broadcast talk on Heroines in Fiction, and incurred serious displeasure by wishing goodnight to her mother on air at the end of the programme (while... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's next lovers were women working professionally in the media: first was Hilda Matheson
, Director of Talks for the BBC
. They presumably met in connection with VSW
's first broadcast, on 18... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC
: on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research. 34: 261 |
Employer | Vita Sackville-West | |
Performance of text | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
organised an experimental radio mystery play, The Scoop, by herself and Detection Club
members E. C. Bentley
, Anthony Berkeley
, Freeman Wills Crofts
, and Clemence Dane
. It was broadcast serially on the BBC
. Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol. 5 . |
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