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Reception | George Eliot | The novel has never been a feature film, but was adapted as a highly successful BBC
television series in 1994. Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon. 529 |
Reception | George Eliot | A BBC
adaptation of the novel, 2002, made marital rape a major feature in its interpretation of Grandcourt's silent cruelty which, as critic Andrew Dowling
notes, operates as a sign of some truth beyond itself... |
Reception | Edith Somerville | ES
's nephew Nevill Coghill
broadcast a talk about her for the BBC
: she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross
. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 274-6 |
Reception | Olivia Manning | It was a disappointment to OM
when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis
, was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning? Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 2 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 325 |
Reception | Anne Devlin | AD
has read two of these stories on BBC Radio 4
: Five Notes after a Visit (1986) and First Bite (1990). Devlin, Anne. The Way-Paver. Faber and Faber. prelims “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. |
Reception | Doris Lessing | This novel was, however, highly and perceptively praised by Anita Brookner
in a retrospective review reprinted in her Soundings, 1997. The Royal Swedish Academy
in 2007 called it one of the handful of books... |
Reception | Barbara Pym | Initially, this novel sold fewer copies than any of BP
's previous books. Even after an excerpt was broadcast on BBC
's Woman's Hour in 1965, sales continued to be low. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 103-4 |
Reception | Jackie Kay | Lesley McDowell
, reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, called JKone of our most notable and challenging poets. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
Reception | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Reception | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Reviewer John Pemble
mentions the whole archive of mock research in pseudo-academic publications dedicated to [Holmes's] life and work. Contributors to the BBC
's centenary tribute in 1954 all expressed the hope that Holmes was... |
Reception | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The Times Literary Supplement judged the original to be a singularly interesting book—written by a German for Germans in the shadow of the First World War—and that Hamilton's translation was of exceptional excellence. Stannard, Harold Martin. “A German on England”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1466, p. 175. 175 |
Reception | Githa Sowerby | The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look Sowerby, Githa. “Rutherford and Son”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, pp. 133-89. 188 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | |
Reception | E. H. Young | Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY
appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield |
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