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At five JA bought a notebook with a gift of two shillings, to do her writing in. As a child she was a great spinner of fantasy tales, first for herself and later for her...

This play has been used in a radio drama workshop by Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris , and the script has been posted by the BBC on its website Writersroom because it has such pedagogic...

At the suggestion of her general practitioner AO appeared, with her two babies, on the BBC 's Family Doctor programme as a case-study in depression.

After the war, too, she began to mention cognitive difficulties. I have been like something lost in the fog for most of the year, she wrote in November 1946, and my memory is still full...

In April 1946, UM 's English friend Stella Mead noticed that Marson was not doing well psychologically, and arranged for the writer Clare McFarlane to take her back to Jamaica with him. Suffering from depression...

In her day EJ knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie , whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen. She counted among her...

Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver (author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden , Olivia Manning , and Cecily Mackworth , Kay Dick (assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly...

Both these two (Fry and Oakeley ) remained Rathbone's close friends. In a BBC broadcast in 1956, Margery Fry recalled one of her discussions with ER on the social and professional possibilities open to educated...

RG preserved her friendship with the director Jean Renoir from the time that he filmed her novel The River. After moving to Highgate she became friendly with the writer Stevie Smith (whom she calls...

Isabella Elder was the widow of John Elder , a famous Glasgow shipbuilder. When he died in 1869 he left her a fortune; she used it to buy and donate Northpark House in Glasgow as...

While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department , AW met Graham Greene , Simone Weil , and Kathleen Raine . Early in the war, as she gradually moved closer to the Church, she wrote...

Through correspondence RM became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford , and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union . He was fifteen years her...

BP encountered Lord David Cecil (Oxford don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC and aired as Tea With Miss Pym.

On 26 August 1944, Hemingway came rolling down rue de l'Odéon with four BBC cars and liberated the rue de l'Odéon. SB writes that she heard four shots on the roofs and that was the...

It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë 's Shirley and Rosa Kettle 's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872. Scholars like Violet Ingham