Box, Muriel. The Big Switch. Macdonald.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Author summary | Muriel Box | MB
, who collaborated with her first husband, Sydney
, in the mid twentieth century on numerous plays (the more than fifty which preceded the Second World War included two volumes of one-acters with all-female... |
Dedications | Muriel Box | She dedicated it To Sydney
with love. Box, Muriel. The Big Switch. Macdonald. prelims |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | When Muriel Baker first read Sydney Box
's award-winning Murder Trial she wrote: A gem of a one-act play! She thought him likely to produce good work for films, and on this basis exchanged letters... |
Occupation | Muriel Box | As well as writing for film and returning to continuity work, MB
embarked during the Second World War on a career as a director, working at first for Verity Films
. This had been founded... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | Sydney Box
suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in late 1959. (His wife had been worrying for some time that he was killing himself.) This resulted in some holiday time, but soon he was as busy as... |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | MB
later wrote of her collaboration with Sydney
that he was an incurable optimist and she an incurable pessimist, so that together they made a nice balance. She also said he was good at taking... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | Muriel Baker
and the journalist and writer Sydney Box
, who were living together, got married at Holborn chiefly because their lawyer told them this would improve their chances in a libel suit. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | MB
was still working as a continuity girl (responsible for keeping tracks of props and details of sets and shooting) when she wrote this play. It was apparently first professionally staged (as opposed to productions... |
Occupation | Muriel Box | After separating from her first husband
, MB
became one of the founders of Femina Books
, the earliest British feminist publishing firm. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 248 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | Muriel
and Sydney Box
issued a second collection of one-act plays for female performers, entitled Petticoat Plays, in 1935. After this volume Muriel recommended Sydney as writer for a documentary film, and his growing... |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | Muriel
and Sydney Box
, her lover and future husband, together published a volume entitled Ladies Only: Six One-act Plays with All-women Casts. The date comes from the Bodleian Library
's acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
Publishing | Muriel Box | In financial panic at the outbreak of the Second World War, Muriel and Sydney Box
sold the copyright in practically all the plays we had written to date to Samuel French, Ltd. for a thousand... |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | In the same year that she collaborated with her soon-to-be husband
on Petticoat Plays, MB
's first independent play, Angels of War, appeared in Five New Full-Length Plays for All Women Casts, edited by John Bourne
. Tylee, Claire M. et al., editors. War Plays by Women: An International Anthology. Routledge. 111 |
Textual Features | Muriel Box | Some of the Boxes' joint screenplays tackle the struggle by women for equality; these include The Years Between, 1946, and Good Time Girl, 1948. A piano solo from The Years Between, printed... |
Performance of text | Muriel Box | A comedy about wartime evacuees by Muriel
and Sydney Box
, Home from Home, opened at the Lyceum Theatre
, Edinburgh, after various delays and disappointments. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 150 |