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Reception | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
's poetry was broadcast on the BBC
's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1987, a CBE in... |
Reception | Malorie Blackman | In 2005 MB
received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle
for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009... |
Reception | Claire Luckham | Tremendously popular with audiences, the play was performed in several cities in Britain and internationally, besides being adapted for BBC
television. In Japan, audiences saw the play as a tragedy about a woman's inability... |
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. 274-6 |
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. 2 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 325 |
Reception | Enid Blyton | Derek McCulloch
of the BBC
, producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin
reiterating that no material by EB
was ever to be used. O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol. 34 , No. 21, pp. 5-8. 5 |
Reception | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Reception | Frances Horovitz | |
Reception | P. D. James | PDJ
held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC
(1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council
at the Arts Council of Great Britain |
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. 103-4 |
Reception | Enid Blyton | During the second world war EB
's reputation ensured her access to paper despite shortages and to her publisher's list despite the curtailment of such lists in general. She received practically no rejections of her... |
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. 188 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | |
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 |
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