Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Stevie Smith | Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver
(author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden
, Olivia Manning
, and Cecily Mackworth
, Kay Dick
(assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly... |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Somerville | Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy
, broadcast by the BBC |
Reception | Githa Sowerby | The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look Sowerby, Githa. “Rutherford and Son”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, pp. 133-89. 188 |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | Alan Pryce-Jones
, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, commissioned MS
for a middle page on Mary Shelley
before her book appeared. Spark also gave a talk on Shelley for the BBC
Third Programme... |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Spark's editor, Alan Maclean
, told her: You've hit the jackpot today. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 213 |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength, Spark, Muriel. Voices At Play. Penguin. 7 |
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... |
Occupation | Freya Stark | After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS
was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC
, the Forum
, and the Royal Central Asia Society |
Travel | Freya Stark | She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC
and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons). |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
often broadcast on the BBC
. She reviewed books, and later remembered an encounter with an old typescript of a review of A. E. Gallatin
's Sir Max Beerbohm
—Bibliographical Notes, 1944, during... |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell. 51 |
Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | Correspondences by AS
was published both by Wesleyan University Press
and Oxford University Press
. Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press. 149 |
Performance of text | Mary Stewart | |
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 |
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