PDJ
's father, Sidney Victor James
, was a civil servant with the Inland Revenue
. His family was fond of music, like that of his wife; his father was a linguist, and for a...
Textual Production
Germaine Greer
As she later told the story, her agent suggested a book (in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the Representation of the People Act of 6 February 1918, when women got the vote) on why...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Margery Allingham
In this novel MA
fictionalised the sordid and often undignified wrangles
qtd. in
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
174
which she was experiencing with the Inland Revenue
. Its opening is particularly memorable. It is a novel of setting (again the English...
Wealth and Poverty
Margery Allingham
In August 1958, after a lot of trauma and hardship which almost resulted in a divorce, and while they were expecting rich returns from her latest novel, Hide My Eyes, MA
and Carter turned...
Wealth and Poverty
Dorothy Whipple
DW
found it very trying that though the money was made and the income tax paid by herself, the Inland Revenue
insisted on sending all correspondence about it to her husband. She had a series...
Wealth and Poverty
Georgette Heyer
GH
lost, on appeal, her legal case against the Inspector of Taxes; she had begun the first of her several unsuccessful battles with the Inland Revenue
four years earlier.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head, 1984.