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Textual Production E. Nesbit
H. R. Millar did another set of illustrations for the book, somewhat derivative of those of Pryse.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Because sales were disappointing, EN decided to advertise the book through what would now be called an...
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH began reviewing books for Time and Tide as an undergraduate. After taking her degree she spent five years as book-review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph before returning to fiction. By the mid-1960s she...
Textual Production Fleur Adcock
Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service website.
Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS was interviewed by Derek Hart for the BBC Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Olivia Manning
OM 's The Balkan Trilogy consists of three novels, The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, and Friends and Heroes, published between 1960 and 1965. L. W. Bailey writes that OM 's husband
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD 's radio play for three characters on the topic of breast cancer, Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly, was broadcast by the BBC on 22 March 2002, produced and directed by Sally Avens
Textual Production Ray Strachey
RS was a prolific essayist who regularly wrote for many American and British publications, including The Nation and Athenæum, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Observer, and the New York Evening...
Textual Production Sarah Kane
Kane used this pseudonym to conceal her identity, first at a lunchtime reading and then at the Traverse Theatre, in an attempt to cast off her reputation for obscenity and violence. The programme included a...
Textual Production Anne Devlin
BBC Two aired A Woman Calling, AD 's first television play, adapted from her own short story Passages, and produced by her husband, Chris Parr .
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Joan Riley
JR gives readings from writing in progress, in schools and at conferences. Her work has been dramatised for radio and television as well as widely anthologised. Her short stories have appeared in Storia I...
Textual Production Margaret Laurence
This book began with a commission from the BBC to write four programmes about Nigerian literature. ML gave herself a crash course in the subject, about which she was very enthusiastic, and expanded her radio...
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.
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She made her first radio broadcast on 18 April 1928, a...
Textual Production Susan Hill
It was adapted as a BBC radio play and re-titled as Miss Lavender is Dead, in 1970.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
For radio WP wrote a play called Her Father's Daughter, 1998, and adapted the short story Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys (dramatization 1997), the novel Indiana by George Sand (1832; BBC Radio Four
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
When she was pregnant for the first time, BB set about trying to earn some money by writing and recording a story for BBC children's radio. Ceedy Man and the Bellringers developed into a series...

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