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Literary responses Ann Hatton
In 1905 a writer in the South Wales Evening Post said he had survived reading all of AH 's novels in the British Library . In The Herald of Wales in 1939 another said they...
Literary Setting Christine Brooke-Rose
This novel uses medieval allegory to resolve the linguistic, psychological, and intellectual fragmentation of its heroine, Julia.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press.
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Much of it is set in the reading room of the British Library (at this date situated...
Literary Setting Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room is often said to be the first of VW 's fictional recreations of her brother Thoby (the others being The Waves and A Sketch of the Past). Hermione Lee calls the work...
Literary Setting Sara Maitland
SM 's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church . Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in...
Material Conditions of Writing Antonia Fraser
This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19.
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was produced within six weeks, including research at the then British Museum , to fulfil a contract between Weidenfeld and Nicolson and the retail chain Marks and Spencer
Material Conditions of Writing Marjorie Bowen
While she was attending the Slade Art School in London, MB became completely discouraged about her prospects as an artist and began to write. At around the age of fourteen she had written a number...
Material Conditions of Writing Gladys Henrietta Schütze
In an author's note GHS regrets being unable to list the books she used for research: Unfortunately, my list of titles was a minor casualty of last year's blitz at the British Museum .
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. Emily in Arlington Street. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Material Conditions of Writing Penelope Lively
PL did extensive research for this book—she says the British Library was her mainstay.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Grove Press.
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A reviewer called it part memoir, part social history;
Connolly, Cressida. “So many rooms—but no room for sentiment”. Guardian Weekly, p. 17.
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yet because of its personal centre PL denies that...
Material Conditions of Writing Maggie Gee
MG says that having been a good girl too long, she chose fiction as an opportunity not to censor her voice to meet the demands of home, or the education system, or boyfriends, not to...
Material Conditions of Writing Frances Power Cobbe
In 1849 FPC produced a lengthy manuscript titled An Essay on True Religion Being a reply to the question Why are you a Deist? Critic Sally Mitchell compares it to a competent doctoral thesis.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
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Material Conditions of Writing E. Arnot Robertson
EAR 's novel Four Frightened People was set more entirely than her previous one in Malaya (where the author had never been). It relied on her research at the British Museum .
Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix.
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Material Conditions of Writing Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie , Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...
Material Conditions of Writing Cecily Mackworth
She began work on the Villon book in the British Museum when that had just reopened after the war, and finished it in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It has an introduction by Denis Saurat .
Material Conditions of Writing Angela Thirkell
She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...
Material Conditions of Writing Emma Roberts
For this work, published before her first voyage to India, she did research at the British Museum .

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