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Publishing Noel Streatfeild
In 2004 this book was broadcast serially on BBC Radio 4 .
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
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.
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Sewell, Brocard, and Colin Wilson. Like Black Swans: Some People and Themes. Limited Edition, Tabb House, 1982.
186
In the mid-sixties she told her publisher,...
Publishing Maggie Gee
The Literary Review printed MG 's radio play Over and Out, which was performed by the BBC during the same year.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
207
Publishing Shena Mackay
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...
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.
Publishing Brigid Brophy
The BBC published BB 's single children's book, Pussy Owl, with illustrations by Hilary Hayton . The stories which make up the book had been told on the BBC children's programme Jackanory.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996.
156
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Caryl Churchill
The Royal Court acted speedily, getting the play on stage the month after it was written, at equal speed, in response to the simultaneous incursion of Israel into the Gaza Strip. Tickets were free, but...
Publishing Penelope Fitzgerald
As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I...
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 Fay Weldon
FW wrote her first television play while she was a housewife in Acton, about a prostitute living as a married woman in a suburb rather like Acton.
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.
291
The BBC turned it down...
Reception Jane Austen
The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...
Reception Penelope Fitzgerald
Mollie Hardwick in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
PF 's winning of the coveted, ten-thousand-pound Booker Prize for it suggests that others saw more...
Reception Malorie Blackman
While Blackman's publisher was seeking a US contract for Noughts and Crosses, the terrorist attacks of 7 September made a fictional Liberation Militia into an untouchable idea. The book did not appear in the...
Reception Mary Stewart
The novel was adapted for television in 1991 when the BBC filmed six episodes, which were then released together on video as Merlin of the Crystal Cave. The series was directed by Michael Darlow
Reception Barbara Pym
It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith .
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
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In a BBC radio broadcast in 1978, Pym noted that this novel had caused someone to comment upon her dislike of men, to...

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