Noël Coward

In Berkshire she participated in local activities, like a Brains Trust in Wantage in aid of some good cause. She was an amateur painter. I once painted a picture of Noël Coward painting a...

Almost all responses to this novel quoted on the cover of its 1985 reprint use somewhere the word original. The Sioux was welcomed at its first appearance by Noel Coward and by Daphne du Maurier

Sitwell later wrote, the attitude of certain of the audience was so threatening that I was warned to stay on the platform, hidden by the curtain, until they got tired of waiting for me and...

It proved another of her best-sellers. It was the means of restoring her old friendship with Noel Coward , who wrote to congratulate her on it.

The play was a critical success—the Times, the News Chronicle, and the Telegraph all thought it Smith's best to date, and DS agreed with them. Noël Coward wrote to her and her producer,...

The Pelican also elicited positive reactions. Noël Coward , for example, wrote to the authors that he had seldom been so moved by a play. It is perfectly written, perfectly constructed and perfectly acted. This...

The Times Literary Supplement perceived the protagonist as a man who in youth sacrifices the spiritual side of his life to the material.Frank Swinnerton called the book a noble failure. At...

Like her first play, it again received admiring comparisons to Noel Coward .

See-Saw brought GBS a fan letter from Noël Coward , written from a hospital bed where he was the next-door neighbour of Geoffrey Holdsworth Lisle (whom GBS married five years later).

On the publication of London War NotesNoël Coward wrote to tell MPD that her evocation of the city in wartime, nearly thirty years in the past, was so well done that he felt sodden...

RG told her sister that this book had only a mention of an animal—one cat—hardly any flowers and not a single live child. Many of her readers, however, disliked its religious content: she faced...

The novel is set in the country of MS 's now long-established residence, in Italy at Nemi, centre of the cult of the goddess Diana. It opens with radio news of the death of...

By the 1950s she was well-known, had branched out into the new medium of television, and was taking on roles of increased size and importance: for instance, on stage, the medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward

As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players , because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they...

Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay