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Reception George Eliot
The novel has never been a feature film, but was adapted as a highly successful BBC television series in 1994.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon.
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In 2014 Rebecca Mead published her very successful My Life in Middlemarch (USA) or...
Reception Dylan Thomas
The name of the fictional town or village of Llareggub (bugger all spelled backwards) had been in his mind for more than twenty years. He had discussed the project of a history of this...
Reception Sarah Waters
SW had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise.
Sarah, and Lee. “Great LezBritain: Sarah Waters talks inspiration, adaptations at World Book Night”. AfterEllen.com, pp. 1-2.
The Independent on Sunday enthused: Could this be a new genre? The bawdy lesbian picaresque novel...
Reception George Eliot
A BBC adaptation of the novel, 2002, made marital rape a major feature in its interpretation of Grandcourt's silent cruelty which, as critic Andrew Dowling notes, operates as a sign of some truth beyond itself...
Reception Anne Devlin
AD has read two of these stories on BBC Radio 4 : Five Notes after a Visit (1986) and First Bite (1990).
Devlin, Anne. The Way-Paver. Faber and Faber.
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“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
Reception Doris Lessing
This novel was, however, highly and perceptively praised by Anita Brookner in a retrospective review reprinted in her Soundings, 1997. The Royal Swedish Academy in 2007 called it one of the handful of books...
Reception Barbara Pym
BP 's Excellent Women was serialised for the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour; this boosted its sales considerably.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press.
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Reception Mary Stewart
The novel was adapted for television in 1991 when the BBC filmed six episodes, which were then released together on video as Merlin of the Crystal Cave. The series was directed by Michael Darlow
Reception Jackie Kay
Lesley McDowell , reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, called JKone of our most notable and challenging poets.
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
One poem, Sabbath, was made into a film for BBC television .
Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books.
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Reception Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reviewer John Pemble mentions the whole archive of mock research in pseudo-academic publications dedicated to [Holmes's] life and work. Contributors to the BBC 's centenary tribute in 1954 all expressed the hope that Holmes was...
Reception Mary Agnes Hamilton
The Times Literary Supplement judged the original to be a singularly interesting book—written by a German for Germans in the shadow of the First World War—and that Hamilton's translation was of exceptional excellence.
Stannard, Harold Martin. “A German on England”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1466, p. 175.
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Reception Agatha Christie
In the early twenty-first century Penguin Putnam had around sixty AC titles in print. The BBC issued VHS and in some case DVD sets of series of her works featuring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple...
Reception Elspeth Huxley
She was always feisty about the amount she was paid: for her first broadcast she queried the BBC 's provision of eight guineas since she had heard that the standard fee was ten. She was...
Reception Olivia Manning
It was a disappointment to OM when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis , was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning?
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Francis King , however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...
Reception Barbara Pym
It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith .
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
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In a BBC radio broadcast in 1978, Pym noted that this novel had caused someone to comment upon her dislike of men, to...

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