Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
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Publishing | Bessie Head | From the beginning BH
sounded defensive about this work, fearing it might be hard to place. Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press. 168, 176 |
Publishing | Bessie Head | Success as a novelist did not put a stop to BH
's shorter and more topical writings. Soon after finishing Maru she was writing for the New African about singer Miriam Makeba
's music and... |
Textual Features | Penelope Mortimer | This takes the story of her life until her twenty-first birthday, treating herself (says critic Giles Gordon
) rather severely. Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26. 26 |
Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights... |
Textual Features | Ann Quin | Set in an unnamed town, which is clearly Brighton, the novel is, as Giles Gordon
describes it, a Graham Greene
thriller as if reworked by a somewhat romantic Burroughs
. Gordon, Giles, and Ann Quin. “Introduction”. Berg, 1st Dalkey Archive edition, Dalkey Archive, p. vii - xiv. ix |
Textual Features | Bessie Head | Cadmore is a teacher with brilliant credentials, and a visual artist whose drawings give dignity and value to ordinary life in the remote village of Dilepe and its oppressed and victimized people. She is also... |
Textual Production | Bessie Head | Giles Gordon
had suggested she write a village book of the genre of |
Textual Production | Bessie Head | In August 1980 BH
submitted to Giles Gordon
, who was once again her agent, six stories all linked to her historical research, though separate in their creation and in their subsequent fate. One of... |
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