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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Doris Lessing | Scholar Elizabeth Maslen
notes the complexity of DL
's bibliography: she used many different publishers, and appeared in many different paperback imprints, some of them since swallowed up by different names. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House. 62 |
Textual Production | Maggie Gee | In her capacity as writing fellow at East Anglia
, MG
edited an anthology entitled For Life on Earth, which collects anti-war texts first published in ephemeral locations. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Reception | Rose Tremain | When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
... |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG
worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press
at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at... |
Occupation | Selima Hill | SH
ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust
, and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a... |
Occupation | Alison Fell | In 1986 AF
was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology
in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia
, in the School... |
Employer | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
Employer | Michèle Roberts | She regularly gives readings of her work, for instance at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on 29 May 2001. She is Professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia
(having previously been Visiting Fellow... |
Employer | Ali Smith | After leaving Cambridge AS
secured a job lecturing at the University of Strathclyde in 1990, where she remained for two years before being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Germanà, Monica, and Emily Horton, editors. Ali Smith. Bloomsbury. xv |
Employer | Rose Tremain | In the year of her first marriage RT
became a full-time writer. In 1988 she became a part-time lecturer on the Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia
, of which she was... |
Employer | Fleur Adcock | In LondonFA
worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(which bought her a few hours of solitude each day to write in) until she took the plunge and became a... |
Employer | Angela Carter | AC
taught part-time in the Writing MA programme at the University of East Anglia
in Norwich. Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House. x |
Employer | Bernardine Evaristo | Apart from other writing-life activities like reading her poems in London and on tour, BE
has a successful career as an academic teacher of creative writing. She has worked in the UK at the University of East Anglia |
Education | Ann Quin | There followed brief attendance at a part-time painting course in her late teens (the result of a romantic passion for an art student), being struck dumb at an audition for RADA
(the Royal Academy of... |
Education | Rose Tremain | Rose Thomson (later RT
) received her BA Honours degree in English (her second degree) from the University of East Anglia
, where she had enrolled in 1964. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 Tremain, Rose. Rosie. Scenes from a Vanished Life. Chatto. 193 |