Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Penelope Gilliatt
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Standard Name: Gilliatt, Penelope
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Penelope Mortimer | PM
counted among her friends and acquaintances many well-known names from literature and the cinema. In Rome she met Bette Davis
and Dirk Bogarde
. In New York she met director Alain Resnais
and producers... |
| Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Penelope Gilliatt
thought the evil in Seton had been to some extent absorbed by Bridges. Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin. last page |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Once she had secured an advance on her first novel, EJH
was at once able to place a couple of pieces in Vogue. She later wrote reviews for a little magazine run by Nancy Spain |
| Publishing | Penelope Mortimer | As Ann Temple, Penelope Dimont (later PM
) wrote a lonely hearts column for the Daily Mail. Later she reviewed novels in the Sunday Times and films in The Observer (where she succeeded... |
| Textual Production | Enid Bagnold | One of EB
's motives in writing this book was to refute critics' negative responses to her plays. An early draft began with an open letter to someone she regarded as one of the worst... |
Timeline
1 January 1916: The British edition of Vogue (an American...
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1 January 1916
The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast
in Hanover Square, London.
21 February 1924: The first issue appeared of the New Yorker...
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21 February 1924
The first issue appeared of the New Yorkermagazine (still going strong in the twenty-first century).
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011
1971: Sunday, Bloody Sunday, a screenplay by Penelope...
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1971
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, a screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt
that received an Oscar
nomination, was published.
1973: Penelope Gilliatt published Unholy Fools,...
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1973
Penelope Gilliatt
published Unholy Fools, Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace, a book that explores the role of the comic, especially in film and theatre.
July 1975: Contributing to her reputation as an important...
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July 1975
Contributing to her reputation as an important film critic, Penelope Gilliatt
published a filmmaker's profile entitled Jean Renoir
: Essays, Conversations, Reviews.
1976: Penelope Gilliatt published another study...
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1976
Penelope Gilliatt
published another study of a French filmmaker: Jacques Tati.
July 1977: Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt...
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July 1977
Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt
was published.
1978: Penelope Gilliatt published The Cutting Edge:...
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1978
Penelope Gilliatt
published The Cutting Edge: A Novel.
1980: Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections...
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1980
Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections by Penelope Gilliatt
collected her various reviews and profiles of celebrities (including Nabokov
, Hitchcock
, Woody Allen
, and Diane Keaton
).
1983: Penelope Gilliatt's novel Mortal Matters,...
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1983
Penelope Gilliatt
's novelMortal Matters, published this year, is based on her childhood in the shipbuilding and coalmining region of Northumberland.
1988: Penelope Gilliatt published A Woman of Singular...
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1988
Penelope Gilliatt
published A Woman of Singular Occupation, a novel.
1990: Penelope Gilliatt published this year both...
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1990
Penelope Gilliatt
published this year both Lingo, a short-story volume, and To Wit: In Celebration of Comedy, a study of the genre.
Texts
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