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As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I...

ST 's greatest success began in, but did not stay in, the theatre world. One Sunday (a total collapse; I was exhausted) her eldest son enquired in that adolescent, self-pitying voice why they...

CM 's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le...

Just after war was declared in September 1939 RF wrote to The Times suggest that the BBC should broadcast the opinions of ordinary people in neutral countries. She quoted comments she had herself recently heard...

From 1948 she was making the amazing sum of three guineas for 1,000-word articles for a nature magazine. She once wrote a correspondence column: questions as well as answers. Someone suggested she should write for...

James said that in this novel she wanted to bring many conventions of the classical English mystery up to date, and to confront them with the courage, the dispassionate intelligence, and the cool common sense...

AQ published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. In the mid-sixties she told her publisher,...

The Literary Review printed MG 's radio play Over and Out, which was performed by the BBC during the same year.

Some of these nine stories had recently appeared in anthologies; two were commissioned by BBC Radio 4 , and read on air in 1991 and 1992. In one of these, A Mine of Serpents...

EF 's collaboration with her youngest brother, Herbert , began before the first world war in amateur entertainments, with spoof patriotic ballads like The Coastguard, whose bluff speaker prefers to let his little son...

Derek McCulloch of the BBC , producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin reiterating that no material by EB was ever to be used.

Before she had published a collected volume of her verse, LL won a BBC Radio Scotland poetry prize for Revelation and Poem for Other Poor Fools.

BP 's Excellent Women was serialised for the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour; this boosted its sales considerably.

She was always feisty about the amount she was paid: for her first broadcast she queried the BBC 's provision of eight guineas since she had heard that the standard fee was ten. She was...

During the second world war EB 's reputation ensured her access to paper despite shortages and to her publisher's list despite the curtailment of such lists in general. She received practically no rejections of her...