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Employer | Elspeth Huxley | In her capacity as a broadcaster, EH
was a member of the BBC Advisory Council
. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 220 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. |
Employer | Elspeth Huxley | After her stint as assistant press officer at the Empire Marketing Board
in London (from 1929 to June 1932), EH
moved on into broader journalism. During the second world war, in addition to quantities of... |
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. 47 |
Employer | Gwen Moffat | In Sussex GM
(already a writer for magazines and BBC Radio
) worked as a maid in a hotel, then for the Dolphin Theatre
in Brighton, first as a secretary and then as property... |
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 | Pam Gems | PG
worked as a writer and researcher for the BBC
for some years from 1950. She worked on and off while bringing up her children. Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press. 87 Burkman, Katherine H. “The Plays of Pam Gems: Personal/Political/Personal”. British and Irish Drama since 1960, edited by James Acheson, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 190-01. 191 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 158 |
Employer | Ling Shuhua | From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University
, and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong. Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield. 309 |
Employer | Lucille Iremonger | She became a broadcaster with the BBC
in 1948, and continued in this role for forty years. She became a professional writer, and contributed work to newspapers in addition to publishing books. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Employer | Rebecca West | |
Employer | Antonia White | |
Employer | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
Employer | Diana Athill | |
Employer | Una Marson | UM
was featured alongside Mulk Raj Anand
, William Empson
, and T. S. Eliot
on the BBC
's radio magazine programme Voice edited by Eric Blair (George Orwell)
. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 157-8 |
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