Ronald Blythe

Standard Name: Blythe, Ronald

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Textual Production Bessie Head
Giles Gordon had suggested she write a village book of the genre of Jan Myrdal's Report from a Chinese Village or Ronald Blythe 's Akenside. She would need, he said, to impose a...
Reception Beryl Bainbridge
Reviews were gratifying (talent, wrote Ronald Blythe , was too mild a word), and the novel won the Guardian Fiction Prize and (like its predecessor) was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury .
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Literary responses Bessie Head
Ronald Blythe wrote in a foreword to the eventual publication: Rarely has the cadence and the intelligence of the four generations which lived through these years been caught to accurately or so movingly.Elspeth Huxley
Fictionalization Margaret Catchpole
Richard Cobbold , son of Elizabeth Cobbold , and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC 's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was...

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Texts

Cobbold, Richard et al. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. Boydell Press, 1979.