Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | E. H. Young | The actress Gladys Young
read aloud on a BBC
radio programme an unascribed story about a haunted country house which was apparently by her sister EHY
. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, pp. 303-31. 312 |
Performance of text | E. H. Young | Later stories, like The Grey Mare (17 February 1948) and Cow's Tail (20 September 1950) were also read on the BBC
. Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate. 46 |
Performance of text | E. H. Young | The following year Cape
produced a collected edition of EHY
's works, going back as far as Yonder. Miss Mole was reprinted by Virago Press
in 1984 (edited by Sally Beauman), and read aloud... |
Reception | E. H. Young | Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY
appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
gave their first broadcast for the BBC
—a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published? Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 565 |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library
(M7060). The only extant recording of... |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Orlando continues to arouse strong positive and negative feeling. Jeanette Winterson
's celebration of it in July 2002 (on a BBC2
programme entitled Art That Shook the World) as one of the great turning... |
Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | The television adaptation of JW
's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was transmitted in three episodes on BBC Television
; the script was published the same year. Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Adapted from her novel by Jeanette Winterson. Pandora. cast list |
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... |
Employer | Antonia White | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Antonia White | |
Friends, Associates | Antonia White | While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department
, AW
met Graham Greene
, Simone Weil
, and Kathleen Raine
. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 137 |
Employer | Rebecca West | |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)... |