Clemence Dane

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Standard Name: Dane, Clemence
Birth Name: Winifred Ashton
Pseudonym: Clemence Dane
Pseudonym: Diana Portis
CD wrote, during the earlier twentieth century, over thirty plays for the stage, radio, and screen, in addition to her journalism and other non-fiction, and fourteen fictional works ranging from girls' school novels to detective fiction. Her work frequently addressed political issues of the day.
Black and white photograph of Clemence Dane, shown from the shoulders up, and posed with her body on an angle and her face turned to face the camera directly. She is wearing a black shirt with a long, dark, beaded necklace, and she has short, dark hair.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Ngaio Marsh
This novel is set during the opening production at The Dolphin, a recently derelict and now lovingly restored Victorian theatre beside the Thames in London. The central character, Peregrine or Perry Jay, is a...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS was an enthusiastic and longstanding member of the Detection Club , a group of detective novelists who met regularly to discuss their craft. DLS helped to establish the club, and served as its President...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
Its authors planned the plot together before the broadcast and roughly outlined what each episode should contain. Each was given full stylistic control of her/his own segment.
Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
5
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The Listener. BBC.
(11 February 1931): 223
Later in the same...
Textual Production Edith Craig
Edith Craig appears in Clemence Dane 's play Eighty in the Shade as the dominant but dependent Blanche Carroll.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
11, 176
Theatre historian Julie Holledge has suggested that Craig was the model for Virginia Woolf
Textual Production Graham Greene
GG published his first novel, The Man Within. Clemence Dane , who read the manuscript for Heinemann , reported that here was a born writer.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
15
Murray, David Leslie. “The Man Within”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1429, p. 492.
492
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
Between 1928 and 1934, DLS edited three volumes under the series title Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Her introductions to these collections offered a scholarly history of the genre of detective...

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Texts

Dane, Clemence. Wild Decembers. William Heinemann, 1932.
Dane, Clemence. Will Shakespeare. William Heinemann, 1921.