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Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...

The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look and they sit at the table facing one another as they strike...

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 ...

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

In the early twenty-first century Penguin Putnam had around sixty AC titles in print. The BBC issued VHS and in some case DVD sets of series of her works featuring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple...

She was always feisty about the amount she was paid: for her first broadcast she queried the BBC 's provision of eight guineas since she had heard that the standard fee was ten. She was...

Spark's editor, Alan Maclean , told her: You've hit the jackpot today.The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...

The TLS review pronounced that RS had steadily improved at her craft, but that the book under review still had drawbacks: over-sweetness of writing and some sentimentality in the personal relationships.

Critics were unfailingly enthusiastic, and the William books (with their US editions and European translations) were distributed and translated widely. The profits from the William books allowed RC to build her own house, and...

Mollie Hardwick in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming.PF 's winning of the coveted, ten-thousand-pound Booker Prize for it suggests that others saw more...

During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley . John Lehmann read one of FB 's poems on the Third Programme...

Tey's novel was made into a BBC television movie in 1986. It was also the unacknowledged basis for the 1963 film Paranoiac, directed by Freddie Francis .

A conference at the University of Warwick commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of MR 's death; Stuart Curran gave a plenary address and Jacqueline M. Labbe spoke about Robinson on the BBC 's Woman's Hour.

JT felt she was inadequately paid by the BBC for her radio plays, and they are often left unmentioned in the historical record.

DDM made her first television appearance, in an interview on BBC 2 .