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Textual Production Marghanita Laski
ML felt that Kipling was undervalued as a poet by her generation, for political rather than literary reasons. She selected and edited a volume of his poems (Kipling's English History) for the BBC in 1974.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Josephine Tey
Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
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Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne.
25
Textual Production Liz Lochhead
The BBC broadcast LL 's television play Sweet Nothings; it was published the same year.
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
7
MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Kennedy
In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale...
Travel Ella K. Maillart
They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice.
Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php.
Their route, which lay through the remote province of...
Travel Freya Stark
She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons).
Travel Elizabeth Bowen
This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
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The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...
Travel Rumer Godden
In early October 1994 RG flew to Delhi for a final visit to India, travelling with a BBC crew to make a film about her life for the programme Bookmark. They went to Kashmir...
Wealth and Poverty Barbara Pym
By the date of her retirement, Pym's annual salary was a low £1,764. She and her sister Hilary lived on this and on Hilary's income as a BBC producer. Pym's books had at this date...

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