“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Samaritans
Connections
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Occupation | Monica Dickens | MD
volunteered to answer crisis calls at St Stephen Walbrook, the London centre of the Samaritans
, in the late 1960s. The organization, founded by the Rev. Chad Varah
in 1953, already a network all... |
Occupation | Mary Wesley | During the period that she partly longed to kill herself, she worked for the Samaritans
, comforting desperate would-be suicides on the phone. She later worked for Prisoners of Conscience
, a trust aimed at... |
politics | Monica Dickens | MD
founded in Boston the first American branch of the Samaritans
, the organization for helping the suicidal. Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978. 191 |
Textual Production | Monica Dickens | MD
published one of her best-known novels, The Listeners (entitled in the USA The End of the Line), about the Samaritans
, the organization devoted to helping people tempted to suicide. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (2 November 1970): 12 British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1987. 1979 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | In collaboration with Monica Dickens
, RS
put together for the benefit of the Samaritans
a volume of short stories and essays for young people dealing with suicide and other emotional issues: Is Anyone There?, 1978. |
Timeline
1953
Chad Varah
began the Samaritans
, a charity to assist people in despair, with a telephone line in the bombed-out crypt of St Stephen Walbrook in London, where he was the incumbent.