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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Freya Stark | After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS
was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC
, the Forum
, and the Royal Central Asia Society |
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). |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | Alan Pryce-Jones
, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, commissioned MS
for a middle page on Mary Shelley
before her book appeared. Spark also gave a talk on Shelley for the BBC
Third Programme... |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Spark's editor, Alan Maclean
, told her: You've hit the jackpot today. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 213 |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength, Spark, Muriel. Voices At Play. Penguin. 7 |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | The London theatre critics were scathing, with only two exceptions (though one of these, Harold Hobson
, carried a lot of weight). Pamela Hansford Johnson
trounced the play on the BBC
's radio programme The... |
Reception | Githa Sowerby | The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look Sowerby, Githa. “Rutherford and Son”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, pp. 133-89. 188 |
Reception | Edith Somerville | ES
's nephew Nevill Coghill
broadcast a talk about her for the BBC
: she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross
. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 274-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Somerville | Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy
, broadcast by the BBC |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | Dear Octopus was revived almost immediately at the Adelphi
, in July and August of 1940, and it remains DS
's most frequently revived play. It was published by Heinemann in 1938. Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge. 226 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 107 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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
... |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | The book was immediately popular. Noel Streatfeild
chose it as her Book of the Month in Young Elizabethan magazine, and Foyle's Children's Book Club
bought 20,000 copies. Reviews were glowing: the Times Literary Supplement described... |
Textual Production | Stevie Smith | |
Textual Production | Stevie Smith | SS
was interviewed by Derek Hart
for the BBC
Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet. “BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4. |
Friends, Associates | Stevie Smith | Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver
(author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden
, Olivia Manning
, and Cecily Mackworth
, Kay Dick
(assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly... |
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