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As to gender politics, though she admired the suffragists and felt strongly about women's rights, she thought of herself not as a woman writer but as a writer who happened to be a woman, and...

CH gave a BBC radio broadcast on the twenty-fifth anniversary (which fell this year) of women's attainment of the vote.

Guest-editing the BBC 's Today programme at almost ninety, PDJ openly accused the director-general of dumbing down.

UM began a series of radio broadcasts from BBCLondon intended to boost the morale of West Indian troops.

VT broadcast on literary topics for La France libre via the BBC . This work earned her the Légion d'Honneur , awarded in 1950.

The committee had been convened by the Labour government after a long gestation. Its various recommendations included continuing the BBC licence fee, setting up a fourth television channel, and keeping strict curbs on commercial television...

Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...

DDM , who published throughout the middle years of the twentieth century, was primarily a novelist, though she wrote non-fiction—biography, plays, and screenplays—as well. Her work was adapted into film and television by such esteemed...

A poet whose career began in the later twentieth century, CB has published six volumes of poetry, one semi-autobiograpical prose narrative, two autobiographical essays, poetry reviews, and a series of online collaborations combining poetry and...

RM was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works...

EG began her writing career by contributing several comic, polemical sketches to the suffrage cause. These one-act plays seek to demonstrate the relevance of the suffrage movement to working-class women. During the First World War...

Just after war was declared in September 1939 RF wrote to The Times suggest that the BBC should broadcast the opinions of ordinary people in neutral countries. She quoted comments she had herself recently heard...

SH 's volume of autobiographical sketches, The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year, was published with engravings by John Lawrence . In May the BBC ran a 20-minute film about it on their Omnibus...

EF 's collaboration with her youngest brother, Herbert , began before the first world war in amateur entertainments, with spoof patriotic ballads like The Coastguard, whose bluff speaker prefers to let his little son...

Pritchett wrote, I cannot think of any Irish writer who has gone so profoundly without fear into the Irish heart.Two of these stories, Cuckoo Spit and My Vocation, both previously published in...