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Wealth and Poverty | Barbara Pym | 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... |
Travel | Elizabeth Bowen | This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 141 |
Travel | Ella K. Maillart | 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. Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php. |
Travel | Freya Stark | 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). |
Travel | Rumer Godden | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Kennedy | 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... |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | BBC One
broadcast The Venus de Milo Instead, a teleplay by AD
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 245 “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press. 95 |
Textual Production | Susan Miles | It was originally written as a radio play for the BBC
, but was never aired. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | Her radio broadcast for the BBC
on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech. |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | Dorothy Sayers
invited AC
to contribute a segment to a BBC
radio crime-serial entitled Behind the Screen. Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS. 195 |
Textual Production | Nell Dunn | |
Textual Production | Julia O'Faolain | While working as a translator for the Council of Europe
, JOF
also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer... |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Other radio plays that MW
has written about women writers include An Uncommon Love, based on Hannah Cullwick
's relationship with Arthur Munby
, A Consoling Blue, about Jean Rhys
's writing of... |