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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 | Vita Sackville-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 | 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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's next lovers were women working professionally in the media: first was Hilda Matheson
, Director of Talks for the BBC
. They presumably met in connection with VSW
's first broadcast, on 18... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Shelagh Delaney | SD
chose April Fools' Day to announce her daughter's birth to the press. The Daily Mail reported that she recently made a chain-smoking appearance on BBC television and that in February 1963 she admitted to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was VT
's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Somerville | Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy
, broadcast by the BBC |
Family and Intimate relationships | J. K. Rowling | JFK investigated her mother's French roots and made a television programme for BBC One
about the results in April 2012. Her great-grandfather, Louis Volant, was born illegitimate in Paris, had a successful career in London... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Gardam | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Trollope | In 1985 JT
married her second husband, Ian Curteis
, a television director and dramatist known particularly for documentaries, dramatised biographies, and for challenging the left-wing hegemony at the BBC
. His works include an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Bawden |
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