Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Somerville | Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy
, broadcast by the BBC |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Bowen | Cameron was Assistant Secretary for Education in Northamptonshire; he then became Secretary for Education in Oxfordshire, and later worked in schools programming for the BBC
. The marriage was a surprise to his friends, who... |
Family and Intimate relationships | J. K. Rowling | JFK investigated her mother's French roots and made a television programme for BBC One
about the results in April 2012. Her great-grandfather, Louis Volant, was born illegitimate in Paris, had a successful career in London... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Samuel Beckett | Following several other love-affairs (the earliest with a cousin, Peggy Sinclair
, who died young in 1933), SB
shared his life from about this time with pianist Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil
, whom he married in 1961... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Trollope | In 1985 JT
married her second husband, Ian Curteis
, a television director and dramatist known particularly for documentaries, dramatised biographies, and for challenging the left-wing hegemony at the BBC
. His works include an... |
Employer | Antonia White | |
Employer | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
Employer | Diana Athill | |
Employer | Una Marson | UM
was featured alongside Mulk Raj Anand
, William Empson
, and T. S. Eliot
on the BBC
's radio magazine programme Voice edited by Eric Blair (George Orwell)
. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 157-8 |
Employer | Naomi Jacob | NJ
went to work, displaying the energy of five women, Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 162 |
Employer | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
Employer | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
worked occasionally for the BBC
from the late 1940s. She later became one of the Critics team (which meant regular recording sessions), and sat on the committee of the Book Society
, which she... |
Employer | Berta Ruck | |
Employer | Gillian Clarke | |
Employer | Monica Furlong | She wanted to be a journalist, but was rejected for the first job she applied for, on the Church Times (whose editor was then Rosamund Essex
). She was taken on as secretary to a... |
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