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Textual Production Josephine Tey
Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press, 2015.
225
Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne, 1980.
25
Textual Production Jean Rhys
Diaz needed the author's permission for the performance, and on November 5th she put an advertisement in the New Statesman to find her. At this point, Rhys was living in obscurity in the country, and...
Textual Production Anne Devlin
BBC One broadcast The Venus de Milo Instead, a teleplay by AD .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997.
95
Textual Production Olivia Manning
OM 's The Balkan Trilogy consists of three novels, The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, and Friends and Heroes, published between 1960 and 1965. L. W. Bailey writes that OM 's husband
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC gave the first of two radio interviews preserved by the BBC ; in it she spoke of why she began writing and about her working methods and habits.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith 's White Teeth, Monica Ali 's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson 's Oranges...
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This...
Textual Production Teresa Deevy
This reached print the year after it was performed, in the Dublin Magazine. It played in Cork in 1939, opening on 6 November. A television film made from it was broadcast by the BBC
Textual Production Jean Rhys
Rhys heard from a friend in October 1956 that the BBC were looking for her regarding a feature production of the novel. She wrote to them to encourage their plans, as it had been seven...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
RM was a hard-working critic, reviewer, and journalist. From the 1920s into the second world war she wrote for Time and Tide, The Spectator, and the New Statesman among other publications.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
The BBC commissioned PB to prepare a script to be transmitted to North America on the Democracy Marches radio programme.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
217
Textual Production Anne Devlin
The opening instalment of AD 's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence 's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997.
95
Textual Production Kathleen Jamie
KJ has written scripts for radio programmes, like The Whale Road, about the arches made of whale bones which stand here and there in Britain (BBC Radio 3 , 2008), and Norn But...
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003.
Kay, Jackie. “Wish I was here”. Guardian Weekly, 2 Aug. 2003, pp. 50-3.
50
This story was broadcast on the BBC 's Radio Three during the same month.
Kay, Jackie. “Short story endings”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, Jan. 2004, pp. 44-5.
45

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