Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | Barbara Pym | BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jenkins | In her day EJ
knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie
, whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 148 |
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... |
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 | Cecily Mackworth | CM
is said to have liked this the best of all her published works. Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited. Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman. 130 |
Literary responses | Mary Renault | |
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. 292 |
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