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Residence Willa Muir
The Muirs' stay in Italy ended abruptly and sooner than they would have liked when the British government withdrew its funding to the British Council for European branches of the British Institute .
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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Textual Features A. S. Byatt
This discusses Murdoch's first eight novels. An enlarged Vintage paperback reprint of about thirty years later, entitled Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch, adds ASB 's later writings on Murdoch: essays...
Textual Features Deborah Levy
The British Council website on writers points out that despite its slangy style and up-to-the-minute references (contemporary, bathetic and very funny), this work has its structural roots in medieval poetic dialogues, in the...
Textual Production Maggie Gee
MG thanks many individuals and institutions (including the British Council ) for enabling her to amass considerable first-hand experience of Uganda in order to write this book. She contributed an article, A different view...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC wrote for the British Council a little book on George Eliot as one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News, also known as the Writers and Their Work series.
British Book News. British Council.
(1951): 673
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
She followed it with a brief study of Coleridge done for the British Council in 1953 (one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News), and with a critical Introduction to his selected Poems...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
The British Council issued at London and New York, 1961, a slim volume of EJ 's work, Poetry To-day, 1957-60, in its Bibliographical Series of Supplements to British Book News on Writers and their Work.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
The book was published for the British Council and the National Book League . There were later a number of revised editions.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 288
Textual Production Margaret Drabble
She had met Wilson, a fellow-novelist, on a British Council visit to Wales, and had come to know him as well as to admire his writing.
Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6-7.
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Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
In late 1951 she wrote a booklet for the British CouncilWriters and their Work series on Ivy Compton-Burnett , who was only just beginning to attract attention among those interested in the craft of...
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
Throughout the 1980s HD gave many readings of her works: at literary festivals, and at schools, colleges, libraries, clubs, and prisons. Her poetry was also featured on BBC radio (several different programmes) and television. As...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE and Maggie Gee jointly edited NW15: The Anthology of New Writing Volume 15 (in a series whose titles have seen several changes), published through Granta and the British Council .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Carol Rumens
Her author statement for the British Council website says that poetry is a conversation—with my parents, with myself, with the living, with the dead, with friends, with strangers, and perhaps with words themselves.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production Fleur Adcock
She appeared with six other poets in Portfolio no. 3 from London's Steam Press in 1979 (an actual portfolio of separate leaves, published in fifty signed and numbered copies, in a black cover with illustrations...

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