qtd. in
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
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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. Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books, 1998. prelims |
Reception | Frances Horovitz | |
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. 2 |
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. 2 |
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. 9 , No. 1, 2002, pp. 3-8. 3 |
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. 188 |
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. 274-6 |
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. 140 |
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. 175 |
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 | |
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 |
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