McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1995, pp. 101-9. 108
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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, 1995, pp. 101-9. 108 |
Literary responses | Michèle Roberts | Local audiences drank the play up. Most reviewers were appreciative, but the BBC
programme Kaleidoscope thought Psyche's portrayed need and longing for Eros un-feminist. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 292 |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Alison Uttley | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Antonia White | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Carol Shields | While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto
, CS
wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC
, and over the... |
Occupation | Jean Binta Breeze | After appearing on the BBC
programme New Voices in 1988, Breeze became involved with the British film, television, and theatre industries. In the 1990s alone, she contributed to television programmes, wrote two plays, and wrote... |
Occupation | Caryl Churchill | While CC
was attending Oxford University, a student production of one of her plays brought her into contact with an agent, Margaret Ramsay
, who encouraged her to write for radio. From 1962 to the... |
Occupation | George Orwell | |
Occupation | Mary Kingsley | MK
helped to initiate the Royal African Society
, which was founded in her name in 1901 just after her death. Today the Society's website offers a biography and some striking pictures of MK
... |
Occupation | P. D. James | She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been... |
Occupation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution)
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 311 |
Occupation | Clemence Dane | By then she had appeared on a couple of the BBC
's Brains Trust series. Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964. 58 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
gave their first broadcast for the BBC
—a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published? Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 565 |
Occupation | E. Arnot Robertson | During the Second World War, EAR
worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The... |
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