Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins.
prelims
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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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | 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 | Diana Athill | |
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 | Naomi Jacob | NJ
went to work, displaying the energy of five women, Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 162 |
Employer | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
Employer | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
worked occasionally for the BBC
from the late 1940s. She later became one of the Critics team (which meant regular recording sessions), and sat on the committee of the Book Society
, which she... |
Employer | Berta Ruck |