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Textual Production Frances Ridley Havergal
The most common theme of FRH 's poetry and hymns is an unswerving devotion to God, whom she generally refers to as The King or The Master. Her most popular hymns include Take My...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
She had finished it in January that year, and dedicated it to John Simopoulos , a Greek friend who was gay. It was adapted for television (BBC2 ) by Reg Gadney in 1982.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
418, 421, 471
Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS recorded a series of three programmes entitled Poems and Drawings, which was broadcast by the BBC .
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
206, 231
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.
7
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 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 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 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).
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.
141
The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...
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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