Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Bawden | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kamila Shamsie | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Trollope | In 1985 JT
married her second husband, Ian Curteis
, a television director and dramatist known particularly for documentaries, dramatised biographies, and for challenging the left-wing hegemony at the BBC
. His works include an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Gardam | |
Employer | Una Marson | The programme, modelled after Voice, featured readings from the work of West Indian writers. Because few Caribbean writers were living in London during the war, their work was read primarily from Jamaican literary journals... |
Employer | Berta Ruck | |
Employer | Naomi Jacob | NJ
went to work, displaying the energy of five women, qtd. in Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 162 |
Employer | William Empson | He found himself teaching in primitive and personally dangerous conditions in distant universities, at least one a temporary, ad hoc organization—not only short of food but also teaching without books. He was the only European... |
Employer | Frances Horovitz | At the BBC
and Open UniversityFH
established herself as one of the most accomplished readers of contemporary poetry. As Frances Hooker
, she read for the BBC's Third Programme
(which, with a few shifts... |
Employer | Rose Macaulay | RM
had a long-running career as a journalist: until part-way through the Second World War she combined a large output of novels with working as a critic and reviewer. She worked for Time and Tide... |
Employer | Andrea Levy | During her early, drifting years AL
worked designing woven textiles, but realised in about ten minutes that designing was not for her. Levy, Andrea. “Back to my Own Country”. British Library Windrush Stories, 2018. |
Employer | Diana Athill | |
Employer | Elizabeth Jane Howard | |
Employer | Cecily Mackworth | In summer 1945, as the date of the general election approached, CM
began working for the Labour Party
: quite a good job in the research dept, but we are drowned in work. Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman, 1984. 47 |
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