qtd. in
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
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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 | Olivia Manning | It was a disappointment to OM
when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis
, was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning? qtd. in Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 2 |
Reception | Jackie Kay | Lesley McDowell
, reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, called JKone of our most notable and challenging poets. qtd. in “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books, 1998. prelims |
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 | Frances Horovitz | |
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 |
Reception | Mary Robinson | 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. Curran, Stuart, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Mary Robinson to Isobel Grundy. May 2000. Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Mary Robinson’s Bicentennial”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, 2002, pp. 3-8. 3 |
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 | 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 | Josephine Tey | |
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 |
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. 175 |
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