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Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

Consensus has so far eluded readers of BP . Popular and respected early in her career, discarded by hardnosed publishers as old-fashioned, dramatically resuscitated to bestseller status by the combined power of the BBC ...

Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield

The initial version of Mary and the Monster was not well received. LL quotes the reviewer from the Birmingham Evening News as saying I'd rather be at the dentist—to which she adds, so would...

The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look and they sit at the table facing one another as they strike...

In 2005 MB received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009...

UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...

The TLS review pronounced that RS had steadily improved at her craft, but that the book under review still had drawbacks: over-sweetness of writing and some sentimentality in the personal relationships.

Tremendously popular with audiences, the play was performed in several cities in Britain and internationally, besides being adapted for BBC television. In Japan, audiences saw the play as a tragedy about a woman's inability...

Spark's editor, Alan Maclean , told her: You've hit the jackpot today.The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...

Derek McCulloch of the BBC , producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin reiterating that no material by EB was ever to be used.

FH 's poetry, as well as her poetry-reading for the BBC , touched many, and thousands mourned her early death. In 1984 Canto produced a cassette tape of her reading her poetry and giving an...

PDJ held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC (1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council at the Arts Council of Great Britain

Tey's novel was made into a BBC television movie in 1986. It was also the unacknowledged basis for the 1963 film Paranoiac, directed by Freddie Francis .

During the second world war EB 's reputation ensured her access to paper despite shortages and to her publisher's list despite the curtailment of such lists in general. She received practically no rejections of her...