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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...
Occupation Germaine Greer
In about 1971 GG began working as a broadcaster-journalist for mainline as well as fringe or underground publications. This aspect of her work included frequent appearances on BBC programmes, where she continues to appear in...
Occupation P. D. James
She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been...
Occupation Viola Meynell
VM was invited to host a series of BBC radio broadcasts on literary figures.
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
311 and n36, 312-13
Material Conditions of Writing Carol Shields
While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto , CS wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC , and over the...
Material Conditions of Writing Antonia White
AW was given three weeks to produce a booklet about her employer, the BBC : BBC at War.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
271
Material Conditions of Writing Alison Uttley
AU , whose experience of public speaking had included a lecture on Writing for Children, spoke bravely on BBC TV's Book Programme in the month of her ninety-first birthday.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
206, 256
Literary Setting Maureen Duffy
Albert Square is fictional, a place immediately recognisable to most of MD 's readers as the home of the BBC soap opera East Enders. MD impartially investigates both popular and unpopular phenomena: Boadicea and...
Literary responses Anna Leonowens
Twentieth-century responses are often critical of AL 's books, and have questioned the validity of her reports of harem life. Ian Grimble's BBC production called AL a mischief maker, a squalid little girl, ....
Literary responses Nina Bawden
Sheila Mitchell , commenting on this novel on BBC radio, called it one of the best she had read about the family situation as we have it nowadays.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
14
Literary responses Cecily Mackworth
CM is said to have liked this the best of all her published works.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
It was discussed on the BBC programme The Critics,
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman.
130
and later proved an important book for a future translator...
Literary responses Mary Renault
MR wrote to a friend that Time was to give this novel a full page. She agreed, uncharacteristically, to give a television interview to the BBC in 1982. To obtain her agreement, her interviewer and...
Literary responses Michèle Roberts
Local audiences drank the play up. Most reviewers were appreciative, but the BBC programme Kaleidoscope thought Psyche's portrayed need and longing for Eros un-feminist.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
292
Literary responses Muriel Spark
The London theatre critics were scathing, with only two exceptions (though one of these, Harold Hobson , carried a lot of weight). Pamela Hansford Johnson trounced the play on the BBC 's radio programme The...
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
The standard 1892 edition of John Julian 's...

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