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Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society
Literary responses Catherine Byron
In a positive review for BBC Radio Ulster, Sean Rafferty identified this work not only as autobiography and literary criticism, but also as a piece of travel-writing: I expected a critical academic tome. What I...
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.
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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.
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Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
Elizabeth Taylor detailed the interest that attended this book's appearance. Published on a Monday, it was broadcast as a radio play on Wednesday, discussed on radio on Thursday by Daniel George (who called the author...
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 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.
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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 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...
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
Rosemary Dinnage in a Times Literary Supplement review contrasted contemporary openness about childbirth with the continuing block on mentioning menstruation. She cited a recent example in which Margaret Drabble had mentioned the subject on BBC
Literary responses Ethel Wilson
The reviews in England were positive. Seán O'Faoláin wrote in the BBC journal the Listener that The Equations of Love exemplified how English ought to be written, and called EWone of the most charming...
Literary responses Harriett Mozley
Critic Kathleen Tillotson gave a talk on the BBC Third Programme entitled Newman's Sister Harriett and The Fairy Bower. Neither this nor her essay published in 1965 produced any revival of scholarly interest in HM .
Tillotson, Kathleen et al. “Harriett Mozley”. Mid-Victorian Studies, Athlone Press, pp. 38-48.
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Intertextuality and Influence Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ 's idea for an Imaginary Conversation among characters from Proust came originally from a suggestion by Rayner Heppenstall in about 1947 for a BBC broadcast. She was delighted with the quality of the original...
Intertextuality and Influence Liz Lochhead
LL 's contributions included a parody of the country song Stand by Your Man (And if you love him / Be proud of him / 'Cause after all he's Jist a Man)
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
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