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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Through correspondence RM
became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford
, and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union
. He was fifteen years her... |
Friends, Associates | Eleanor Rathbone | Both these two (Fry and Oakeley
) remained Rathbone's close friends. In a BBC
broadcast in 1956, Margery Fry
recalled one of her discussions with ER
on the social and professional possibilities open to educated... |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jenkins | In her day EJ
knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie
, whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 148 |
Friends, Associates | Antonia White | While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department
, AW
met Graham Greene
, Simone Weil
, and Kathleen Raine
. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 137 |
Health | Helen Waddell | After the war, too, she began to mention cognitive difficulties. I have been like something lost in the fog for most of the year, she wrote in November 1946, and my memory is still full... |
Health | Una Marson | In April 1946, UM
's English friend Stella Mead
noticed that Marson was not doing well psychologically, and arranged for the writer Clare McFarlane
to take her back to Jamaica with him. Suffering from depression... |
Health | Ann Oakley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
's idea for an Imaginary Conversation among characters from Proust came originally from a suggestion by Rayner Heppenstall
in about 1947 for a BBC
broadcast. She was delighted with the quality of the original... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | LL
's contributions included a parody of the country song Stand by Your Man (And if you love him / Be proud of him / 'Cause after all he's Jist a Man) Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 65 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joan Aiken | At five JA
bought a notebook with a gift of two shillings, to do her writing in. As a child she was a great spinner of fantasy tales, first for herself and later for her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Daniels | This play has been used in a radio drama workshop by Elaine Aston
and Geraldine Harris
, and the script has been posted by the BBC
on its website Writersroom because it has such pedagogic... |
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... |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | FB
never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson
published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan
's... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The book was well received, and enhanced SP
'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
... |
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