NB
was a contemporary at Somerville of the future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
, with whom she had a political argument (which she felt that she lost). She was very briefly a friend of actor...
Literary responses
Daphne Du Maurier
British Book News complained that it follows a well-worn path and is less happy in invention than the author's previous novels; but it knew a page-turner when it saw one and predicted high popularity...
Performance of text
Dylan Thomas
It went out on the BBC Third Programme
, with the Welsh actor Richard Burton
taking Thomas's part as narrator, and with only three cosmetic cuts
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press.
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out of the originally stipulated bowdlerization. The BBC
Textual Production
Elizabeth Bowen
It had a provincial tour before opening at the Lyric
, Hammersmith, which Perry was managing. It was the first play in which the twenty-three-year-old, newly demobbed Richard Burton
appeared (in a minor role).
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
