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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.
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In 2014 Rebecca Mead published her very successful My Life in Middlemarch (USA) or...
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.
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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.
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Francis King , however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...
Reception Barbara Pym
It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith .
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
325
In a BBC radio broadcast in 1978, Pym noted that this novel had caused someone to comment upon her dislike of men, to...
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.
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Anne Wyatt-Brown thinks...
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.
One poem, Sabbath, was made into a film for BBC television .
Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
Reception E. Arnot Robertson
MGM wrote to the BBC to complain of the review that EAR had broadcast of the film The Green Years.
“Obituary: Miss E. Arnot Robertson”. Times, p. 12.
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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.
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She...
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.
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and they sit at the table facing one another as they strike...
Reception Barbara Pym
Consensus has so far eluded readers of BP . Popular and respected early in her career, discarded by hardnosed publishers as old-fashioned, dramatically resuscitated to bestseller status by the combined power of the BBC ...
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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