Sarah, and Lee. “Great LezBritain: Sarah Waters talks inspiration, adaptations at World Book Night”. AfterEllen.com, pp. 1-2.
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Textual Features | Wendy Cope | |
Reception | Dylan Thomas | At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT
delivered the typed, completed manuscript... |
Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
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 | 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 | Sarah Waters | SW
had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise. |
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 | Richmal Crompton | Critics were unfailingly enthusiastic, and the William books (with their US editions and European translations) were distributed and translated widely. Williams, Kay. Just Richmal. Genesis. 140 |
Reception | Penelope Fitzgerald | Mollie Hardwick
in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Reception | Barbara Pym | |
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 | Frances Bellerby | During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region
programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley
. John Lehmann
read one of FB
's poems on the Third Programme... |
Reception | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Reception | Liz Lochhead | Before she had published a collected volume of her verse, LL
won a BBC Radio Scotland
poetry prize for Revelation and Poem for Other Poor Fools. Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16. 13 Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58. 643-4 |
Reception | Edith Somerville | ES
's nephew Nevill Coghill
broadcast a talk about her for the BBC
: she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross
. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 274-6 |
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