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After Merivel was nominated for but did not win the Wellcome Trust book prize, RT contributed a brave, wry, self-mocking essay to The Guardian under the title The art of not winning. Over the...

From 1948 she was making the amazing sum of three guineas for 1,000-word articles for a nature magazine. She once wrote a correspondence column: questions as well as answers. Someone suggested she should write for...

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...

Some of these nine stories had recently appeared in anthologies; two were commissioned by BBC Radio 4 , and read on air in 1991 and 1992. In one of these, A Mine of Serpents...

By 1967 MF had worked as a journalist for the BBC , had covered religious affairs for the Guardian and the Spectator, and was writing a regular column for the Daily Mail.

There followed in this series How Little Grey Rabbit Got Back Her Tail, 1930, The Great Adventure of Hare, 1931 (originally entitled Hare Goes a-Journeying), and The Story of Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog...

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...

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...

After many rejections, AU began a series involving the scapegrace Tim Rabbit with The Adventures of No Ordinary Rabbit, published by Faber in November 1937, with illustrations by Alec Buckels . Years later, a...

Extraordinarily prolific, MW has contributed innumerable articles and reviews to periodicals, including the Independent, the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Sunday Times, the Times Literary...

During the second world war EB 's reputation ensured her access to paper despite shortages and to her publisher's list despite the curtailment of such lists in general. She received practically no rejections of her...

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...

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...

SW had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise. The Independent on Sunday enthused: Could this be a new genre? The bawdy lesbian picaresque novel...

The novel has never been a feature film, but was adapted as a highly successful BBC television series in 1994. In 2014 Rebecca Mead published her very successful My Life in Middlemarch (USA) or...