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Publishing Sheenagh Pugh
This volume includes what its author calls the dreaded Sometimes, a poem which has proved so popular as to be almost an embarrassment. Discussed on a BBC Radio 4 programme, The Secret Life of...
Publishing Mary Lavin
Pritchett wrote, I cannot think of any Irish writer who has gone so profoundly without fear into the Irish heart.
qtd. in
Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978.
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Two of these stories, Cuckoo Spit and My Vocation, both previously published in...
Publishing Eleanor Farjeon
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...
Publishing Marina Warner
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...
Publishing Alison Uttley
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...
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, 2007.
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“The Dumb Waiter”. thisistheatre.com, 1 Nov. 2011.
Publishing Alison Uttley
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...
Publishing Monica Furlong
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.
Birk, Alma, and Clive Labovitch, editors. Quest. Paul Hamlyn / Cornmarket Press.
2: prelims
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 Phyllis Bottome
The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney cartoon characters to depict the two...
Reception Rosemary Sutcliff
The TLS review pronounced that RS had steadily improved at her craft, but that the book under review still had drawbacks: over-sweetness of writing and some sentimentality in the personal relationships.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2755 (19 November 1954): 748
Reception Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reviewer John Pemble mentions the whole archive of mock research in pseudo-academic publications dedicated to [Holmes's] life and work. Contributors to the BBC 's centenary tribute in 1954 all expressed the hope that Holmes was...
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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She...
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 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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