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Textual Production | Margery Allingham | While she was working on Dance of the Years, in March 1942, MA
spoke on the BBC Overseas Service
about the changes wartime was making in traditional village life. (She had been named as... |
Textual Production | Jeni Couzyn | The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same... |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | |
Textual Production | Olivia Manning | After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC
(with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A... |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | The play (a dramatised version of The Way Things Are) ran for almost six months in London and was also produced in New York. Delafield, E. M., and Nicola Beauman. The Diary of a Provincial Lady. Rpt. ed., Virago, 1984. prelims McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985. 119 Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988. 151 |
Textual Production | Una Marson | Marson initially approached T. S. Eliot
to write the preface, but he refused, so she turned to L. A. G. Strong
, a British writer and a colleague at the BBC
. She dedicated the... |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | One Goodnight, the first of MD
's two radio plays about the Irish writers Edith Somerville
and Martin Ross
, aired on the BBC
. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW
often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International
production (1990) adapted... |
Textual Production | Berta Ruck | Shortly after this BR
was invited to give a broadcast talk on Heroines in Fiction, and incurred serious displeasure by wishing goodnight to her mother on air at the end of the programme (while... |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | She had finished it in January that year, and dedicated it to John Simopoulos
, a Greek friend who was gay. It was adapted for television (BBC2
) by Reg Gadney
in 1982. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 418, 421, 471 |
Textual Production | Buchi Emecheta | |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Gardens of Eden, MW
's radio play based on her own poems, was aired in 1987 on BBC Radio 4
with music by Michael Nyman
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | SH
began reviewing books for Time and Tide as an undergraduate. After taking her degree she spent five years as book-review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph before returning to fiction. By the mid-1960s she... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth von Arnim | A month-long holiday that EA
took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie
and Mary Mallet
provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane
rewrote it as... |
Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | Into this work, SB
wrote later, she threw herself with a compound of conviction and self-doubt. Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin, 1999. ix |
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