Birk, Alma, and Clive Labovitch, editors. Quest. Paul Hamlyn / Cornmarket Press.
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Publishing | Sue Townsend | ST
's greatest success began in, but did not stay in, the theatre world. One Sunday (a total collapse; I was exhausted) her eldest son enquired in that adolescent, self-pitying voice why they... |
Publishing | Susan Hill | 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... |
Publishing | Monica Furlong | |
Publishing | Fay Weldon | |
Publishing | P. D. James | James said that in this novel she wanted to bring many conventions of the classical English mystery up to date, and to confront them with the courage, the dispassionate intelligence, and the cool common sense... |
Publishing | Michelene Wandor | BBC Radio
rejected the play when MW
submitted it to them in 1977, but decided to broadcast it in 1981 after a producer saw the stage production. The National Theatre
likewise initially rejected it, but... |
Publishing | Eleanor Farjeon | |
Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | In 2004 this book was broadcast serially on BBC Radio 4
. Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/. |
Publishing | Harold Pinter | It was rejected that August as a possible television play for the BBC
. A successful revival took place in spring 2007 at Trafalgar Studios
, London. Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber. 111 “The Dumb Waiter”. thisistheatre.com. |
Publishing | Mary Lavin | Pritchett
wrote, I cannot think of any Irish writer who has gone so profoundly without fear into the Irish heart. Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne. 143 |
Publishing | Cecily Mackworth | CM
's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | Alan Pryce-Jones
, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, commissioned MS
for a middle page on Mary Shelley
before her book appeared. Spark also gave a talk on Shelley for the BBC
Third Programme... |
Publishing | Ann Quin | AQ
published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 231 Sewell, Brocard, and Colin Wilson. Like Black Swans: Some People and Themes. Tabb House. 186 |
Publishing | Constance Garnett | She translated The Cherry Orchard in 1906 (two years after its first appearance in Russian) and submitted the result to Incorporated Stage Society
. For a long time she received no response, but on 28... |
Publishing | Dorothy L. Sayers | The BBC
filmed five Wimsey novels (set in the 1920s) with Ian Carmichael
playing the sleuth, then added the three Harriet Vane mysteries, set in the 1930s. |
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