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Reception Jackie Kay
Lesley McDowell , reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, called JKone of our most notable and challenging poets.
qtd. in
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
One poem, Sabbath, was made into a film for BBC television .
Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books, 1998.
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Reception Frances Horovitz
FH 's poetry, as well as her poetry-reading for the BBC , touched many, and thousands mourned her early death. In 1984 Canto produced a cassette tape of her reading her poetry and giving an...
Reception Ruth Pitter
During her lifetime RP was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener.
King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles.
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Arthur Russell
Reception Olivia Manning
It was a disappointment to OM when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis , was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning?
qtd. in
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
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Francis King , however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...
Reception Mary Robinson
A conference at the University of Warwick commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of MR 's death; Stuart Curran gave a plenary address and Jacqueline M. Labbe spoke about Robinson on the BBC 's Woman's Hour.
Curran, Stuart, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Mary Robinson to Isobel Grundy. May 2000.
Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Mary Robinson’s Bicentennial”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2002, pp. 3-8.
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Reception Githa Sowerby
The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look
Sowerby, Githa. “Rutherford and Son”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 133-89.
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and they sit at the table facing one another as they strike...
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 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, 1968.
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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, 1986.
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The profits from the William books allowed RC to build her own house, and...
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
Reception Mary Agnes Hamilton
The Times Literary Supplement judged the original to be a singularly interesting book—written by a German for Germans in the shadow of the First World War—and that Hamilton's translation was of exceptional excellence.
Stannard, Harold Martin. “A German on England”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1466, 6 Mar. 1930, p. 175.
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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 E. Arnot Robertson
MGM wrote to the BBC to complain of the review that EAR had broadcast of the film The Green Years.
“Obituary: Miss E. Arnot Robertson”. Times, 23 Sept. 1961, p. 12.
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Reception P. D. James
PDJ held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC (1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council at the Arts Council of Great Britain
Reception Daphne Du Maurier
DDM made her first television appearance, in an interview on BBC 2 .
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
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