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June Purvis traces the influence on EP 's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia , estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost...

It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë 's Shirley and Rosa Kettle 's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872. Scholars like Violet Ingham

BBC radio aired a play by Harold Lang and Kenneth Tynan , The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself.

Scholars of colonial discourse such as Simon Gikandi have found in her newly available narrative an avenue for exploring the complexity of the colonial subject's construction of identity, against whom to read better-known Victorian women...

Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC . During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the...

JG 's younger son, Tom, caused her terror in his teens when a large hole was discovered in his thigh bone. He recovered, however. Her eldest, Tim , after a successful career with the BBC

At sixteen he left Australia (shortly after his mother returned to England) for Brussels, where he worked in business until, in 1935, he moved to England himself. He studied art, served in the army during...

LP is married to Christopher Hawes , a fellow author and former drama teacher, who like her often works for the BBC .

Austen Kark came to hold a high position in the BBC 's overseas service. The couple's daughter, Perdita, was born in 1957. By 2004 NB had grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her husband, Austen Kark, was killed...

In her memoirs JK mentions her partner Denise Else , who is on good terms with Duffy and her daughter. Else works as a sound technician with the BBC .

Cameron was Assistant Secretary for Education in Northamptonshire; he then became Secretary for Education in Oxfordshire, and later worked in schools programming for the BBC . The marriage was a surprise to his friends, who...

Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT 's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...

VSW 's next lovers were women working professionally in the media: first was Hilda Matheson , Director of Talks for the BBC . They presumably met in connection with VSW 's first broadcast, on 18...

Following several other love-affairs (the earliest with a cousin, Peggy Sinclair , who died young in 1933), SB shared his life from about this time with pianist Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil , whom he married in 1961...

The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was VT 's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm...