“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Samaritans
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 1874–1987. 1979 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| 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...
Building item
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.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
407
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978.
187
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