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Publishing | Constance Garnett | She translated The Cherry Orchard in 1906 (two years after its first appearance in Russian) and submitted the result to Incorporated Stage Society
. For a long time she received no response, but on 28... |
Textual Production | Constance Garnett | Ephemeral writings by CG
have not been collected. A letter she wrote to Leonard Woolf
at the New Statesman and Nation in 1933, setting out her considered judgement on Soviet Communism, was apparently designed for... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | There were nine editions of Cranford during EG
's lifetime, but another 160 appeared between her death and 1947 (almost as many in the USA as in Britain), and it appeared twice in German translations... |
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... |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | |
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 |
Author summary | Evelyn Glover | EG
began her writing career by contributing several comic, polemical sketches to the suffrage cause. These one-act plays seek to demonstrate the relevance of the suffrage movement to working-class women. During the First World War... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Glover | |
Travel | Rumer Godden | |
Occupation | Rumer Godden | |
Friends, Associates | Rumer Godden | RG
preserved her friendship with the director Jean Renoir
from the time that he filmed her novel The River. After moving to Highgate she became friendly with the writer Stevie Smith
(whom she calls... |
Performance of text | Germaine Greer | The BBC
's Broadcasting Support Services
published a transcription of a discussion about education by a group of women journalists and writers moderated by GG
: The Last Word (IV) Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisitions stamp. Greer, Germaine, editor. The Last Word. BBC Broadcasting Support Services. 3 |
Occupation | Germaine Greer | |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Ham | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
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