Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
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Occupation | Freya Stark | After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS
was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC
, the Forum
, and the Royal Central Asia Society |
Occupation | Una Marson | |
Occupation | Rumer Godden | |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC
's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute
movement in Britain. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 154, 156n50 |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Antonia White | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Alison Uttley | |
Literary Setting | Maureen Duffy | |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The translation's appearance in print was greeted with a programme on BBC News Oxford
. “Elizabeth Tanfield Cary 1598 translation published”. BBC News Oxford. |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society |
Literary responses | Catherine Byron | In a positive review for BBC
Radio Ulster, Sean Rafferty
identified this work not only as autobiography and literary criticism, but also as a piece of travel-writing: I expected a critical academic tome. What I... |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | The book was immediately popular. Noel Streatfeild
chose it as her Book of the Month in Young Elizabethan magazine, and Foyle's Children's Book Club
bought 20,000 copies. Reviews were glowing: the Times Literary Supplement described... |
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's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw
praised it in a speech on the BBC
in which he compared SP
to Joan of Arc
... |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Elizabeth Taylor
detailed the interest that attended this book's appearance. Published on a Monday, it was broadcast as a radio play on Wednesday, discussed on radio on Thursday by Daniel George
(who called the author... |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Orlando continues to arouse strong positive and negative feeling. Jeanette Winterson
's celebration of it in July 2002 (on a BBC2
programme entitled Art That Shook the World) as one of the great turning... |
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