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Employer | Elspeth Huxley | After her stint as assistant press officer at the Empire Marketing Board
in London (from 1929 to June 1932), EH
moved on into broader journalism. During the second world war, in addition to quantities of... |
Employer | Pam Gems | PG
worked as a writer and researcher for the BBC
for some years from 1950. She worked on and off while bringing up her children. Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press. 87 Burkman, Katherine H. “The Plays of Pam Gems: Personal/Political/Personal”. British and Irish Drama since 1960, edited by James Acheson, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 190-01. 191 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 158 |
Employer | William Empson | He found himself teaching in primitive and personally dangerous conditions in distant universities, at least one a temporary, ad hoc organization—not only short of food but also teaching without books. He was the only European... |
Employer | Ling Shuhua | From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University
, and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong. Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield. 309 |
Employer | Lucille Iremonger | She became a broadcaster with the BBC
in 1948, and continued in this role for forty years. She became a professional writer, and contributed work to newspapers in addition to publishing books. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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 | Diana Athill | |
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 | Naomi Jacob | NJ
went to work, displaying the energy of five women, Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 162 |
Employer | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
Employer | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
worked occasionally for the BBC
from the late 1940s. She later became one of the Critics team (which meant regular recording sessions), and sat on the committee of the Book Society
, which she... |
Employer | Rebecca West | |
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 | Antonia White | |
Employer | Gillian Clarke |
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