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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 | 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... |
Literary responses | Nina Bawden | Sheila Mitchell
, commenting on this novel on BBC
radio, called it one of the best she had read about the family situation as we have it nowadays. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 14 |
Literary responses | Anna Leonowens | |
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. Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman. 130 |
Literary responses | Mary Renault | |
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. 292 |
Literary responses | Cecil Frances Alexander | This hymn received the seal of approval from American evangelist Ira David Sankey
, who sang it on the site of Calvary Hill in Jerusalem. McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 10 , No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, pp. 101-9. 108 |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | The London theatre critics were scathing, with only two exceptions (though one of these, Harold Hobson
, carried a lot of weight). Pamela Hansford Johnson
trounced the play on the BBC
's radio programme The... |
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 | 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 | 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 | Harriett Mozley | Critic Kathleen Tillotson
gave a talk on the BBC
Third Programme entitled Newman's Sister Harriett and The Fairy Bower. Neither this nor her essay published in 1965 produced any revival of scholarly interest in HM
. Tillotson, Kathleen et al. “Harriett Mozley”. Mid-Victorian Studies, Athlone Press, pp. 38-48. 38 |
Literary responses | Frances Bellerby | The reviewer on the BBC
Western Region found them almost unbearably poignant. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press. 31 |
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... |
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