Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett.
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Textual Production | Dodie Smith | As a child DS
wrote her own plays. While she was studying at what would become the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
, she wrote a screenplay, Schoolgirl Rebels, under the pseudonym Charles Henry Percy |
Publishing | Hélène Barcynska | HB
claims that she wrote her first poem, without help, at seven. It began: A little angel walked this earth. From then on she was always scribbling. Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett. 18 |
Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
wrote the play at the request of Bill Gaskill
, the Court's new manager. She was dissatisfied with her own direction of this production, and preferred the student production she directed at RADA
... |
Occupation | Rebecca West | Cicily had played major roles in school plays, and was encouraged to audition for the Academy of Dramatic Art
by a well-known acting teacher, Rosina Filippi
, who saw her perform in a charity show. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 15-16 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Hélène Barcynska | When acting appeared to be going nowhere, Marguerite Jervis wrote an article entitled A Day at the Academy of Dramatic Art, which she submitted in person (wearing a white muslin frock with blue sash... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Box | MB
's first dramatic writing was for a group in the amateur theatre movement with which much of her career was linked: the Welwyn Folk Players
. She directed for them, and wrote a three-act... |
Education | Ann Quin | There followed brief attendance at a part-time painting course in her late teens (the result of a romantic passion for an art student), being struck dumb at an audition for RADA
(the Royal Academy of... |
Education | Jean Rhys | Ella Williams (later JR
) entered Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
's School (later renamed the Academy of Dramatic Art
) in London to study acting. Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch. 101 Savory, Elaine. Jean Rhys. Cambridge University Press. 11 Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown. 45-6 |
Education | Dodie Smith | DS
studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art
(later RADA) in London. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 26 |
Education | G. B. Stern | GBS
started school at seven. During her first term she fell into disgrace for running up a large bill for pencils, erasers, etc., from a stationers' shop where her parents had an account: she had... |
Education | Noel Streatfeild | After a spell earning her own living, NS
enrolled at the LondonAcademy of Dramatic Art
(later RADA). Jordan, Harriet. “Noel Streatfeild”. White Gauntlet Design. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Viola Tree | Her father, who wanted her to act, chose her as one of the students at the Academy (later Royal Academy) of Dramatic Art
, which he founded in 1904—the same year in which she began... |
Education | Viola Tree | In 1911 Bernard Shaw
, who was an opera critic as well as a playwright, and a Tree family friend (his donations were crucial to the success of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
), wrote... |
Education | Hélène Barcynska | HB
's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry
, and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton
, who offered to pay her... |
Education | Rebecca West | Cicily Fairfield (later RW
) studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art
in London. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 15-16 Deakin, Motley F. Rebecca West. Twayne. 14 |
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