Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins.
prelims
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Anthologization | Bryony Lavery | |
Anthologization | Deborah Moggach | DM
has published two volumes of short stories: Smile and Other Stories, 1987, and Changing Babies and Other Stories, 1995, which contains fifteen stories. Her short fiction has been anthologised in Back Rubs... |
Characters | E. M. Delafield | EMD
defiantly maintains a light, satirical tone despite the gravity of the situation. She focuses deliberately on amusing characters and situations: evacuees who return to London because they cannot tolerate country life; a bureaucrat at... |
Cultural formation | Cecily Mackworth | English with some past admixture of French on her mother's side, Welsh on her father's, she grew up with a strong cosmopolitan or internationalist streak, as well as a tendency to eccentricity or disregard of... |
Cultural formation | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
grew up in the Jewish tradition, in a childhood faith which she later described with warmth but with some later distance, she became in time a self-professed and publicly-acknowledged atheist. Her journey from... |
Dedications | Noel Streatfeild | NS
published in book form The Bell Family, illustrated by Shirley Hughes
and dedicated to Josephine Plummer
, who had produced her series of the same name on the BBC
radio programme Children's Hour in 1949-51. Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins. prelims Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head. 28 Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne. 107 |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
Employer | Gillian Clarke | |
Employer | Monica Furlong | She wanted to be a journalist, but was rejected for the first job she applied for, on the Church Times (whose editor was then Rosamund Essex
). She was taken on as secretary to a... |
Employer | Cecily Mackworth | In summer 1945, as the date of the general election approached, CM
began working for the Labour Party
: quite a good job in the research dept, but we are drowned in work. Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman. 47 |
Employer | Joan Aiken | |
Employer | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was, she said, a tap-dancing member of Miss Thelma Broadbent
's Ensemble in Southport as a small child. At twelve she was recruited by the BBC
to work as a young broadcaster on Children's... |
Employer | Frances Horovitz | At the BBC
and Open UniversityFH
established herself as one of the most accomplished readers of contemporary poetry. As Frances Hooker
, she read for the BBC's Third Programme
(which, with a few shifts... |
Employer | Gwen Moffat | In Sussex GM
(already a writer for magazines and BBC Radio
) worked as a maid in a hotel, then for the Dolphin Theatre
in Brighton, first as a secretary and then as property... |
Employer | Rebecca West |