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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.
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Francis King , however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...
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.
One poem, Sabbath, was made into a film for BBC television .
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
FH 's poetry, as well as her poetry-reading for the BBC , touched many, and thousands mourned her early death. In 1984 Canto produced a cassette tape of her reading her poetry and giving an...
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.
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In 2014 Rebecca Mead published her very successful My Life in Middlemarch (USA) or...
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...
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...
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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