“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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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 | 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. |
Employer | Rebecca West | |
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 | Antonia White | |
Employer | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
Employer | Diana Athill | |
Employer | Una Marson | UM
was featured alongside Mulk Raj Anand
, William Empson
, and T. S. Eliot
on the BBC
's radio magazine programme Voice edited by Eric Blair (George Orwell)
. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 157-8 |
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 | 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 | Una Marson | UM
found herself in London when World War Two began. She volunteered as an air raid shelter marshal, on the grounds that this would still leave time for her writing. She also attempted to impress... |
Employer | Berta Ruck |
Timeline
19 May 1924: The BBC radio made the first broadcast of...
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19 May 1924
The BBC
radio made the first broadcast of the song of a nightingale.
12 June 1924: Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey...
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12 June 1924
Compton Mackenzie
presented the first disc-jockey programme on BBC
radio.
15 September 1924: The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern...
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15 September 1924
The BBC
began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
3 October 1924: The BBC radio presented its first outside...
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3 October 1924
The BBC
radio presented its first outside broadcast, from London Zoo.
13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...
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13 October 1924
The BBC
broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.
1925: An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow...
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1925
An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow (on analogy with highbrow) for people who are hoping that someday they will get used to the stuff they ought to like.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31. 304 n3
17 July 1925: The Radio Supplement was first issued by...
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17 July 1925
The Radio Supplement was first issued by the BBC
.
16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...
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16 November 1925-13 March 1926
1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...
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1926
The BBC
set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.
26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...
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26 May 1926
The BBC
for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords
.
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
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Saturday 19 June 1926
About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
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By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time, as her biographer puts it.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
23
31 December 1926-1 January 1927: The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved...
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31 December 1926-1 January 1927
The British Broadcasting Company
was dissolved and the British Broadcasting Corporation
was constituted under Royal Charter for ten years.
1927: The BBC's first female governor, Ethel Snowden,...
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1927
The BBC
's first female governor, Ethel Snowden
, was appointed.
25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...
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25 April 1928
Winston Churchill
, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC
.
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