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Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Orlando continues to arouse strong positive and negative feeling. Jeanette Winterson
's celebration of it in July 2002 (on a BBC2
programme entitled Art That Shook the World) as one of the great turning... |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | FB
never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson
published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan
's... |
Literary Setting | Maureen Duffy | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Carol Shields | While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto
, CS
wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC
, and over the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Antonia White | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Alison Uttley | |
Occupation | E. Arnot Robertson | During the Second World War, EAR
worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The... |
Occupation | P. D. James | She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been... |
Occupation | Jan Struther | Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC
. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 265 |
Occupation | Germaine Greer | |
Occupation | George Orwell | |
Occupation | Storm Jameson | In her autobiography Jameson also briefly mentions compiling a report on women in munitions factories for the Ministry of Supply
at this time. She spoke on the BBC
at least once, in a radio address... |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
became a full-time programme assistant on the BBC
's Empire Service from London, for which she managed the programme Calling the West Indies. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 149 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House
and the first poet in residence for the... |
Occupation | Freya Stark | After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS
was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC
, the Forum
, and the Royal Central Asia Society |
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