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Textual Production Malorie Blackman
She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press .
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press, 1987.
149
She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Pinter began this work as a radio play. The BBC archives hold a scene-by-scene plan he made for it, plus statements about overall themes and purpose. This plan was rejected in November 1958, but later...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
DS found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne and even admired Shelagh Delaney ...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
She also joined with fellow-writers in letters to the Times on matters of public concern. She joined with forty well-known names (including Pamela Hansford Johnson ) on 25 September 1969 to defend keeping up the...
Textual Production Hilary Mantel
Within not much more than a year of publication this novel had sold more than 65,000 copies, overturning its author's feeling of having always been a very modest seller.
qtd. in
Taylor, Debbie. “Hilary Mantel”. Mslexia, No. 30, July 2006, pp. 46-8.
47
Of a proposed BBC adaptation...
Textual Production Fleur Adcock
Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service website.
Textual Production Emmuska Baroness Orczy
A ten-part BBC television adaptation followed in 1969.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(15 April 1969): 14
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
BB did an interview with Christopher Cook for the BBC World Service , which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
EAR made her first BBC broadcast, Travel and Yachting on English Rivers, and was also heard in unrehearsed debate on issues of gender with Rose Macaulay .
Mason, Edward J., and Tony Shryane. “My Word! (1956-1990)”. Radio Days: Whirligig: 1950’s British Radio Nostalgia.
Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, 1982, p. vii - xix.
xvi
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.
160
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997.
95
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 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.
194: 286
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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