Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins.
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Anthologization | Deborah Moggach | DM
has published two volumes of short stories: Smile and Other Stories, 1987, and Changing Babies and Other Stories, 1995, which contains fifteen stories. Her short fiction has been anthologised in Back Rubs... |
Anthologization | Bryony Lavery | |
Characters | E. M. Delafield | EMD
defiantly maintains a light, satirical tone despite the gravity of the situation. She focuses deliberately on amusing characters and situations: evacuees who return to London because they cannot tolerate country life; a bureaucrat at... |
Cultural formation | Cecily Mackworth | English with some past admixture of French on her mother's side, Welsh on her father's, she grew up with a strong cosmopolitan or internationalist streak, as well as a tendency to eccentricity or disregard of... |
Cultural formation | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
grew up in the Jewish tradition, in a childhood faith which she later described with warmth but with some later distance, she became in time a self-professed and publicly-acknowledged atheist. Her journey from... |
Dedications | Noel Streatfeild | NS
published in book form The Bell Family, illustrated by Shirley Hughes
and dedicated to Josephine Plummer
, who had produced her series of the same name on the BBC
radio programme Children's Hour in 1949-51. Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins. prelims Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head. 28 Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne. 107 |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
Employer | Elizabeth Jane Howard | |
Employer | Antonia White | |
Employer | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
Employer | Una Marson | UM
was featured alongside Mulk Raj Anand
, William Empson
, and T. S. Eliot
on the BBC
's radio magazine programme Voice edited by Eric Blair (George Orwell)
. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 157-8 |
Employer | Elspeth Huxley | In her capacity as a broadcaster, EH
was a member of the BBC Advisory Council
. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 220 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Employer | Rose Macaulay | RM
had a long-running career as a journalist: until part-way through the Second World War she combined a large output of novels with working as a critic and reviewer. She worked for Time and Tide... |
Employer | Andrea Levy | During her early, drifting years AL
worked designing woven textiles, but realised in about ten minutes that designing was not for her. Levy, Andrea. “Back to my Own Country”. British Library Windrush Stories. |
Employer | Elspeth Huxley | After her stint as assistant press officer at the Empire Marketing Board
in London (from 1929 to June 1932), EH
moved on into broader journalism. During the second world war, in addition to quantities of... |