Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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Fictionalization | Naomi Jacob | BBC
radio aired a play by Harold Lang
and Kenneth Tynan
, The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ
played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 180-1 |
Fictionalization | Emmeline Pankhurst | June Purvis
traces the influence on EP
's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia
, estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost... |
Fictionalization | Sir J. M. Barrie | Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became... |
Fictionalization | Mary Seacole | Scholars of colonial discourse such as Simon Gikandi have found in her newly available narrative an avenue for exploring the complexity of the colonial subject's construction of identity, against whom to read better-known Victorian women... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kamila Shamsie | Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC
. During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Bowen | Cameron was Assistant Secretary for Education in Northamptonshire; he then became Secretary for Education in Oxfordshire, and later worked in schools programming for the BBC
. The marriage was a surprise to his friends, who... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Samuel Beckett | Following several other love-affairs (the earliest with a cousin, Peggy Sinclair
, who died young in 1933), SB
shared his life from about this time with pianist Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil
, whom he married in 1961... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | At sixteen he left Australia (shortly after his mother returned to England) for Brussels, where he worked in business until, in 1935, he moved to England himself. He studied art, served in the army during... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Louise Page | LP
is married to Christopher Hawes
, a fellow author and former drama teacher, who like her often works for the BBC
. “Louise Page”. British Council. contemporarywriters. “Christopher Hawes”. Pollinger Limited. authors’ agents. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Shelagh Delaney | SD
chose April Fools' Day to announce her daughter's birth to the press. The Daily Mail reported that she recently made a chain-smoking appearance on BBC television and that in February 1963 she admitted to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was VT
's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Gardam |
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