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She was always feisty about the amount she was paid: for her first broadcast she queried the BBC 's provision of eight guineas since she had heard that the standard fee was ten. She was...

Spark's editor, Alan Maclean , told her: You've hit the jackpot today.The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...

Critics were unfailingly enthusiastic, and the William books (with their US editions and European translations) were distributed and translated widely. The profits from the William books allowed RC to build her own house, and...

Mollie Hardwick in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming.PF 's winning of the coveted, ten-thousand-pound Booker Prize for it suggests that others saw more...

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...

Tey's novel was made into a BBC television movie in 1986. It was also the unacknowledged basis for the 1963 film Paranoiac, directed by Freddie Francis .

JT felt she was inadequately paid by the BBC for her radio plays, and they are often left unmentioned in the historical record.

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.

DDM made her first television appearance, in an interview on BBC 2 .

Before she had published a collected volume of her verse, LL won a BBC Radio Scotland poetry prize for Revelation and Poem for Other Poor Fools.

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...

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.Arthur Russell

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...

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...

The initial version of Mary and the Monster was not well received. LL quotes the reviewer from the Birmingham Evening News as saying I'd rather be at the dentist—to which she adds, so would...