Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Hélène Barcynska | HB
's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry
, and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton
, who offered to pay her... |
Publishing | Hélène Barcynska | HB
claims that she wrote her first poem, without help, at seven. It began: A little angel walked this earth. From then on she was always scribbling. Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett. 18 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Hélène Barcynska | When acting appeared to be going nowhere, Marguerite Jervis wrote an article entitled A Day at the Academy of Dramatic Art, which she submitted in person (wearing a white muslin frock with blue sash... |
Education | Muriel Box | At Surbiton she disliked the educational regime of the headmistress, Miss Proctor, more than any she had known. She could bear the English literature, foreign languages, and religious instruction (which, as before, she converted into... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Box | MB
's first dramatic writing was for a group in the amateur theatre movement with which much of her career was linked: the Welwyn Folk Players
. She directed for them, and wrote a three-act... |
Education | Frances Horovitz | She went on immediately from Bristol to begin studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
, where, between 1959 and 1961, she played the leading roles in many student productions. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
wrote the play at the request of Bill Gaskill
, the Court's new manager. She was dissatisfied with her own direction of this production, and preferred the student production she directed at RADA
... |
Education | Hope Mirrlees | HM
then briefly attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
; however, she soon abandoned her theatrical aspirations for the study of classics. Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press. 132-4 |
Education | Harold Pinter | HP
decided on an acting career, and studied at the RADA
(which he hated) and the Central School of Speech and Drama
(which he enjoyed). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Ann Quin | There followed brief attendance at a part-time painting course in her late teens (the result of a romantic passion for an art student), being struck dumb at an audition for RADA
(the Royal Academy of... |
Education | Jean Rhys | Ella Williams (later JR
) entered Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
's School (later renamed the Academy of Dramatic Art
) in London to study acting. Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch. 101 Savory, Elaine. Jean Rhys. Cambridge University Press. 11 Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown. 45-6 |
Education | Dodie Smith | DS
studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art
(later RADA) in London. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 26 |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | As a child DS
wrote her own plays. While she was studying at what would become the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
, she wrote a screenplay, Schoolgirl Rebels, under the pseudonym Charles Henry Percy |
Education | G. B. Stern | GBS
started school at seven. During her first term she fell into disgrace for running up a large bill for pencils, erasers, etc., from a stationers' shop where her parents had an account: she had... |
Education | Noel Streatfeild | After a spell earning her own living, NS
enrolled at the LondonAcademy of Dramatic Art
(later RADA). Jordan, Harriet. “Noel Streatfeild”. White Gauntlet Design. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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