Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Harold Pinter
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Standard Name: Pinter, Harold
Used Form:
Pseudonym: David Baron
Pseudonym: Harold Pinta
Best-known as one of the leading British playwrights of the later twentieth century and as a Nobel Prize winner, HP
was also a poet, actor, theatre director, and writer of radio plays and screenplays both original and adapted. He was early recognised for stage violence, for comedy of menace and theatre of the absurd. His work became more urgently political with time. He stripped the excess fat from theatre dialogue, and mapped out his own distinctive theatrical topography: a place haunted by the ambivalence of memory, flecked by uncertainty, reeking of sex, and echoing with a strange, mordant laughter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Her family were highly educated, upper-class, Labour Party
supporters: English, although her Anglo-Irish father sometimes liked to declare himself an Irishman.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Pakenham, Francis Aungier Pakenham
He was an earl's son, but the second...
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
She left Sir Hugh Fraser that year to live with Harold Pinter
. Her divorce came through on 16 December 1976. Sir Hugh died in 1984.
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19.
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Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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Literary responses
Antonia Fraser
AF
was not happy when Harold Pinter
found the manuscript, at a relatively early stage, confusing.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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Dedications
Antonia Fraser
She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF
noted that she...
Textual Production
Antonia Fraser
AF
supplied introductions for The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, April 1975 (by various hands), the Trollope Society
's edition of Anthony Trollope
's Framley Parsonage, 1996, and the Folio Society
Literary responses
Antonia Fraser
AF
's debut as a crime novelist was complicated by reviewers looking for parallels with her own life, particularly her recent, high-profile relationship with Harold Pinter
. The Sunday Times was really nasty, but...
Literary responses
Antonia Fraser
Pinter
loved this spoof, which brought together characters from his various plays.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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Textual Production
Antonia Fraser
She and Pinter
decided to sell their manuscripts to the British Library
. In July 1994 they went to pay our manuscripts a visit. They found that while Pinter's were stored in conventional box-files, hers...
Textual Production
Elaine Feinstein
This opportunity arose from her guest editing an issue of Cambridge Opinion while the regular editors were sitting exams, in an issue she called The Writer out of Society. She had discovered Allen Ginsburg...
