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Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
Her radio broadcast for the BBC on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech.
Textual Production Andrea Levy
Levy says she began work on this novel after, as an adult, she at last got her mother talking about the earlier, Jamaican part of her life. At first she was very nervous writing a...
Textual Production Ann Oakley
It was televised by the BBC amid much media hyperbole.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992.
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A paperback appeared in 1989, and another ten years later.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Cochrane, Kira. “Ann Oakley: ’Barbara Wootton was too visionary’”. theguardian.com, 7 July 2011.
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD 's radio play for three characters on the topic of breast cancer, Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly, was broadcast by the BBC on 22 March 2002, produced and directed by Sally Avens
Textual Production Jean Rhys
The production was commissioned by the BBC , and took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London. It was conducted by Colin Davis , with Meriel Dickinson as soloist. The work was later...
Textual Production Anne Devlin
BBC Two aired A Woman Calling, AD 's first television play, adapted from her own short story Passages, and produced by her husband, Chris Parr .
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber, 1986.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
The television adaptation of JW 's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was transmitted in three episodes on BBC Television ; the script was published the same year.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Adapted from her novel by Jeanette Winterson. Pandora, 1990.
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Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS often broadcast on the BBC . She reviewed books, and later remembered an encounter with an old typescript of a review of A. E. Gallatin 's Sir Max Beerbohm —Bibliographical Notes, 1944, during...
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 Marina Warner
MW published Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time, a collection of six essays originally broadcast on radio earlier that year as the annual BBC Reith lectures.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research, 1998.
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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.
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This story was broadcast on the BBC 's Radio Three during the same month.
Kay, Jackie. “Short story endings”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, Jan. 2004, pp. 44-5.
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Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW was assiduous in supplying obituaries for friends, acquaintances, or figures she admired, and was very upset when her notice for the Times on Charlotte , G. B. Shaw's wife, appeared riddled with misprints.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
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Textual Production Andrea Levy
AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 .
Hickman, Christie. “Andrea Levy: Under the skin of history”. The Independent, 6 Feb. 2004.
Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...
Textual Production Julia O'Faolain
While working as a translator for the Council of Europe , JOF also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer...
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
When she was pregnant for the first time, BB set about trying to earn some money by writing and recording a story for BBC children's radio. Ceedy Man and the Bellringers developed into a series...

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