Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne, 1986.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Employer | P. D. James | PDJ
worked for the new National Health Service
as an administrative assistant at the Northwest Regional Hospital Board
, in London. Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne, 1986. chronology, 2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Zadie Smith | ZS
's mother was born in Jamaica (as Yvonne Maclean
) and migrated to England at the age of fifteen. She worked as a model in the fashion industry, then as a secretary. After taking... |
Health | Michèle Roberts | She had what was probably an abortion in her late twenties, when this was breaking the law. Her period was two weeks late; she did not think she would qualify for an abortion from the... |
Literary responses | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
's poetry was broadcast on the BBC
's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1987, a CBE in... |
Occupation | Hannah More | The Female Friendly Society
founded at Cheddar by the Mores aimed to empower families living at subsistence level to protect themselves against disaster. It lasted until its functions were taken over by the National Health Service |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | SWT concerned herself with local as well as national politics, and was alert to issues involving the countryside and the environment. She was a sponsor of the Rachel Carson Trust
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 60: 408 |
Textual Features | Brigid Brophy | This text constitutes an indictment of many aspects of the National Health Service
, not least the system of time-tabling visits to doctors' surgeries. It is also a vivid account of the detail and the... |
Textual Production | Rosalind Coward | Her weekly Guardian column Looking after Mother followed the life of her aged parent, treating with a mixture of the biting and the humorous such experiences as all too frequent medical appointments at which it... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Bawden | The book is an intimate account of her family and her personal relations with them—it is dedicated to them, and it includes a selection of family photographs covering five generations. It is rich with remembered... |
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