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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... |
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 | |
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). |
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... |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | |
Textual Production | Alison Fell | The National Library of Scotland
holds a collection of AF
's diaries, notebooks, and drafts of poems, novels, plays, and radio and film scripts, audio recordings, programmes for BBC Radio Scotland
, letters, and photos... |
Textual Production | Julia O'Faolain | While working as a translator for the Council of Europe
, JOF
also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer... |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Other radio plays that MW
has written about women writers include An Uncommon Love, based on Hannah Cullwick
's relationship with Arthur Munby
, A Consoling Blue, about Jean Rhys
's writing of... |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | JK
continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003. Kay, Jackie. “Wish I was here”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 50-3. 50 Kay, Jackie. “Short story endings”. Mslexia, Vol. 20 , pp. 44-5. 45 |
Textual Production | Andrea Levy | Levy says she began work on this novel after, as an adult, she at last got her mother talking about the earlier, Jamaican part of her life. At first she was very nervous writing a... |
Textual Production | Noel Streatfeild | She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's... |
Textual Production | Buchi Emecheta | In 1987 BE
published Family Bargain, a book for schoolchildren commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation
. Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research. 66 Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 128: 54 |