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H. R. Millar did another set of illustrations for the book, somewhat derivative of those of Pryse. Because sales were disappointing, EN decided to advertise the book through what would now be called an...

A month-long holiday that EA took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie and Mary Mallet provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane rewrote it as...

It was adapted as a BBC radio play and re-titled as Miss Lavender is Dead, in 1970.

In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale...

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice. Their route, which lay through the remote province of...

She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons).

In early October 1994 RG flew to Delhi for a final visit to India, travelling with a BBC crew to make a film about her life for the programme Bookmark. They went to Kashmir...

This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty. The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...

By the date of her retirement, Pym's annual salary was a low £1,764. She and her sister Hilary lived on this and on Hilary's income as a BBC producer. Pym's books had at this date...