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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 Edith Somerville
ES 's nephew Nevill Coghill broadcast a talk about her for the BBC : she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross .
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Reception Olivia Manning
It was a disappointment to OM when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis , was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning?
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Francis King , however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...
Reception Barbara Pym
It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith .
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
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In a BBC radio broadcast in 1978, Pym noted that this novel had caused someone to comment upon her dislike of men, to...
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 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.
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The profits from the William books allowed RC to build her own house, and...
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.
PF 's winning of the coveted, ten-thousand-pound Booker Prize for it suggests that others saw more...
Reception Barbara Pym
Initially, this novel sold fewer copies than any of BP 's previous books. Even after an excerpt was broadcast on BBC 's Woman's Hour in 1965, sales continued to be low.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press.
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Anne Wyatt-Brown thinks...
Reception E. Arnot Robertson
MGM wrote to the BBC to complain of the review that EAR had broadcast of the film The Green Years.
“Obituary: Miss E. Arnot Robertson”. Times, p. 12.
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Reception Githa Sowerby
The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look
Sowerby, Githa. “Rutherford and Son”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, pp. 133-89.
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and they sit at the table facing one another as they strike...
Reception Barbara Pym
Consensus has so far eluded readers of BP . Popular and respected early in her career, discarded by hardnosed publishers as old-fashioned, dramatically resuscitated to bestseller status by the combined power of the BBC ...
Reception E. H. Young
Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield
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 Muriel Spark
Spark's editor, Alan Maclean , told her: You've hit the jackpot today.
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
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The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...
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.
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