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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...
Reception Enid Blyton
Derek McCulloch of the BBC , producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin reiterating that no material by EB was ever to be used.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 21, 8 Nov. 2012, pp. 5-8.
5
Reception Claire Luckham
Tremendously popular with audiences, the play was performed in several cities in Britain and internationally, besides being adapted for BBC television. In Japan, audiences saw the play as a tragedy about a woman's inability...
Reception Barbara Pym
Initially, this novel sold fewer copies than any of BP 's previous books. Even after an excerpt was broadcast on BBC 's Woman's Hour in 1965, sales continued to be low.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
103-4
Anne Wyatt-Brown thinks...
Reception Enid Blyton
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...
Reception Marina Warner
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...
Reception Barbara Pym
Consensus has so far eluded readers of BP . Popular and respected early in her career, discarded by hardnosed publishers as old-fashioned, dramatically resuscitated to bestseller status by the combined power of the BBC ...
Reception Josephine Tey
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 .
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. Penguin, 1980.
front cover
Reception George Eliot
The novel has never been a feature film, but was adapted as a highly successful BBC television series in 1994.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
529
In 2014 Rebecca Mead published her very successful My Life in Middlemarch (USA) or...
Reception Josephine Tey
JT felt she was inadequately paid by the BBC for her radio plays, and they are often left unmentioned in the historical record.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press, 2015.
226-7
Reception Anne Devlin
AD has read two of these stories on BBC Radio 4 : Five Notes after a Visit (1986) and First Bite (1990).
Devlin, Anne. The Way-Paver. Faber and Faber, 1986.
prelims
“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
Reception Muriel Spark
Spark's editor, Alan Maclean , told her: You've hit the jackpot today.
qtd. in
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
213
The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...
Reception George Eliot
A BBC adaptation of the novel, 2002, made marital rape a major feature in its interpretation of Grandcourt's silent cruelty which, as critic Andrew Dowling notes, operates as a sign of some truth beyond itself...
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.
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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...

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