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Friends, Associates | Charlotte Dempster | Isabella Elder was the widow of John Elder
, a famous Glasgow shipbuilder. When he died in 1869 he left her a fortune; she used it to buy and donate Northpark House in Glasgow as... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Through correspondence RM
became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford
, and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union
. He was fifteen years her... |
Friends, Associates | Eleanor Rathbone | Both these two (Fry and Oakeley
) remained Rathbone's close friends. In a BBC
broadcast in 1956, Margery Fry
recalled one of her discussions with ER
on the social and professional possibilities open to educated... |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | |
Health | Helen Waddell | After the war, too, she began to mention cognitive difficulties. I have been like something lost in the fog for most of the year, she wrote in November 1946, and my memory is still full... |
Health | Una Marson | In April 1946, UM
's English friend Stella Mead
noticed that Marson was not doing well psychologically, and arranged for the writer Clare McFarlane
to take her back to Jamaica with him. Suffering from depression... |
Health | Ann Oakley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
's idea for an Imaginary Conversation among characters from Proust came originally from a suggestion by Rayner Heppenstall
in about 1947 for a BBC
broadcast. She was delighted with the quality of the original... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | LL
's contributions included a parody of the country song Stand by Your Man (And if you love him / Be proud of him / 'Cause after all he's Jist a Man) Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 65 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joan Aiken | At five JA
bought a notebook with a gift of two shillings, to do her writing in. As a child she was a great spinner of fantasy tales, first for herself and later for her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Daniels | This play has been used in a radio drama workshop by Elaine Aston
and Geraldine Harris
, and the script has been posted by the BBC
on its website Writersroom because it has such pedagogic... |
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... |
Literary responses | Cecil Frances Alexander | This hymn received the seal of approval from American evangelist Ira David Sankey
, who sang it on the site of Calvary Hill in Jerusalem. McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 10 , No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, pp. 101-9. 108 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | A BBC
broadcast about Victorian women hymn-writers in 2003 offered the unequivocal opinion that the question opening the poem's ultimate stanza—What shall I bring him, poor as I am?—is not simply an expression... |
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