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Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | |
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. 225 Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne. 25 |
Textual Production | Liz Lochhead | |
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 |
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. |
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. 141 |
Travel | Rumer Godden | |
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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