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Literary responses Anna Leonowens
Twentieth-century responses are often critical of AL 's books, and have questioned the validity of her reports of harem life. Ian Grimble's BBC production called AL a mischief maker, a squalid little girl, ....
Literary responses Frances Bellerby
The reviewer on the BBC Western Region found them almost unbearably poignant.
qtd. in
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Literary responses Christina Rossetti
A BBC broadcast about Victorian women hymn-writers in 2003 offered the unequivocal opinion that the question opening the poem's ultimate stanza—What shall I bring him, poor as I am?—is not simply an expression...
Literary responses Michèle Roberts
Local audiences drank the play up. Most reviewers were appreciative, but the BBC programme Kaleidoscope thought Psyche's portrayed need and longing for Eros un-feminist.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007.
292
Literary responses Mary Renault
MR wrote to a friend that Time was to give this novel a full page. She agreed, uncharacteristically, to give a television interview to the BBC in 1982. To obtain her agreement, her interviewer and...
Literary responses Frances Burney
FB never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan 's...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Orlando continues to arouse strong positive and negative feeling. Jeanette Winterson 's celebration of it in July 2002 (on a BBC2 programme entitled Art That Shook the World) as one of the great turning...
Literary responses Cecily Mackworth
CM is said to have liked this the best of all her published works.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006.
It was discussed on the BBC programme The Critics,
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman, 1984.
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and later proved an important book for a future translator of Eberhardt, Paul Bowles .
Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent, 1 Aug. 2006.
Literary responses Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
The translation's appearance in print was greeted with a programme on BBC News Oxford .
“Elizabeth Tanfield Cary 1598 translation published”. BBC News Oxford, 17 Feb. 2013.
Literary responses Dodie Smith
The book was immediately popular. Noel Streatfeild chose it as her Book of the Month in Young Elizabethan magazine, and Foyle's Children's Book Club bought 20,000 copies. Reviews were glowing: the Times Literary Supplement described...
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society
Literary responses Ethel Wilson
The reviews in England were positive. Seán O'Faoláin wrote in the BBC journal the Listener that The Equations of Love exemplified how English ought to be written, and called EWone of the most charming...
Literary responses Catherine Byron
In a positive review for BBC Radio Ulster, Sean Rafferty identified this work not only as autobiography and literary criticism, but also as a piece of travel-writing: I expected a critical academic tome. What I...
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
Rosemary Dinnage in a Times Literary Supplement review contrasted contemporary openness about childbirth with the continuing block on mentioning menstruation. She cited a recent example in which Margaret Drabble had mentioned the subject on BBC
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
Elizabeth Taylor detailed the interest that attended this book's appearance. Published on a Monday, it was broadcast as a radio play on Wednesday, discussed on radio on Thursday by Daniel George (who called the author...

Timeline

8 May 1945: This day, the one following the formal, unconditional...

National or international item

8 May 1945

This day, the one following the formal, unconditional German surrender to the Allies at Rheims in France, was called V. E. Day or VE Day.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
223, 226-7
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
529, 533
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
825-7
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
378

Late 1945: André Deutsch established the publishing...

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Late 1945

André Deutsch established the publishing firm Allan Wingate in Great Cumberland Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
95, 342
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
89-90

3 September 1945: The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on...

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3 September 1945

The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on BBC radio.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
378

4 March 1946: The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice...

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4 March 1946

The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice programme.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
379

24 March 1946: Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from...

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24 March 1946

Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from America broadcast for the BBC . This series was meant to run for thirteen weeks, but when its last new instalment aired on 20 February 2004 it was...

7 June 1946: The BBC television service resumed after...

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7 June 1946

The BBC television service resumed after the war.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
379

8 June 1946: Britain's Victory Parade marking the end...

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8 June 1946

Britain's Victory Parade marking the end of the Second World War was televised by the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
379

7 July 1946: BBC television broadcast to children for...

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7 July 1946

BBC television broadcast to children for the first time, in For the Children.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
379

29 September 1946: The BBC's Third Programme began radio br...

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29 September 1946

The BBC 's Third Programme began radio broadcasting.
Whitehead, Kate. The Third Programme: A Literary History. Clarendon Press, 1989, http://UofA Rutherford North.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
379

7 October 1946: The BBC first broadcast a new programme:...

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7 October 1946

The BBC first broadcast a new programme: Woman's Hour. (It succeeded to a short-lived Women's Hour, first broadcast on 2 May 1923.)
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
379

6 February 1947: The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain,...

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6 February 1947

The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain, by which no bill coming before parliament within the next two weeks was to be discussed on the BBC .
Mount, Ferdinand. “Living with Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 8, 22 Apr. 2010, pp. 24-6.
25-6
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Ian Jacob
Paulu, Burton. Television and Radio in the United Kingdom. University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
208-9

6 November 1947: Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first...

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6 November 1947

Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first aired on BBC television.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
380

20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh;...

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20 November 1947

Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh ; BBC radio broadcast the wedding service, and BBC television covered the procession as well.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
380

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.
George, Rose. “The known unknowns of menopause”. Guardian Weekly, 8 Jan. 2016, pp. 26-30.
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1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.
George, Rose. “The known unknowns of menopause”. Guardian Weekly, 8 Jan. 2016, pp. 26-30.
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