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Reception | Agatha Christie | In the early twenty-first century Penguin Putnam
had around sixty AC
titles in print. The BBC
issued VHS and in some case DVD sets of series of her works featuring Margaret Rutherford
as Miss Marple... |
Reception | Elspeth Huxley | She was always feisty about the amount she was paid: for her first broadcast she queried the BBC
's provision of eight guineas since she had heard that the standard fee was ten. She was... |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Spark's editor, Alan Maclean
, told her: You've hit the jackpot today. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 213 |
Reception | Rosemary Sutcliff | 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2755 (19 November 1954): 748 |
Reception | Richmal Crompton | Critics were unfailingly enthusiastic, and the William books (with their US editions and European translations) were distributed and translated widely. Williams, Kay. Just Richmal. Genesis. 140 |
Reception | Penelope Fitzgerald | Mollie Hardwick
in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Reception | Frances Bellerby | During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region
programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley
. John Lehmann
read one of FB
's poems on the Third Programme... |
Reception | Josephine Tey | 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
. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. Penguin. front cover |
Reception | Josephine Tey | |
Reception | Mary Robinson | A conference at the University of Warwick
commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of MR
's death; Stuart Curran
gave a plenary address and Jacqueline M. Labbe
spoke about Robinson on the BBC
's Woman's Hour. Curran, Stuart. Email about Mary Robinson to Isobel Grundy. Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Mary Robinson’s Bicentennial”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 3-8. 3 |
Reception | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Reception | Liz Lochhead | Before she had published a collected volume of her verse, LL
won a BBC Radio Scotland
poetry prize for Revelation and Poem for Other Poor Fools. Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16. 13 Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58. 643-4 |
Reception | Ruth Pitter | During her lifetime RP
was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis
scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener. King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles. 2 |
Reception | Jane Austen | The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC
has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels... |
Reception | Malorie Blackman | While Blackman's publisher was seeking a US contract for Noughts and Crosses, the terrorist attacks of 7 September made a fictional Liberation Militia into an untouchable idea. The book did not appear in the... |
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