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Textual Production Nina Bawden
It was made into a film for BBC television.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Andrea Levy
AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 .
Hickman, Christie. “Andrea Levy: Under the skin of history”. The Independent, 6 Feb. 2004.
Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...
Textual Production Julia O'Faolain
While working as a translator for the Council of Europe , JOF also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Kennedy
In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale...
Travel Elizabeth Bowen
This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...
Travel Ella K. Maillart
They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice.
Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php.
Their route, which lay through the remote province of...
Travel Rumer Godden
In early October 1994 RG flew to Delhi for a final visit to India, travelling with a BBC crew to make a film about her life for the programme Bookmark. They went to Kashmir...
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).
Wealth and Poverty Barbara Pym
By the date of her retirement, Pym's annual salary was a low £1,764. She and her sister Hilary lived on this and on Hilary's income as a BBC producer. Pym's books had at this date...

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