Sir John Gielgud

It was an inauspicious time for an opening, because of gathering war-clouds. Anne Ridler later wrote, it was a great pity that Eliot had refused to offer the part [of Harry, the pivotal character] to...

Peter Davies posthumously published the first of a three-volume collection of Plays by Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ), with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud (though without any overview of Daviot's career to...

She finished this novel while living in the house of her friend Ursula Vaughan Williams (its dedicatee) after leaving Kingsley Amis . She was invited to write the script for its filming by Randal Kleiser

JT wrote several plays under the name Gordon Daviot. Her first, Richard of Bordeaux, was by far her greatest critical success. Its immediate successors had much shorter runs, and most of her later...