Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Rebecca Blasco.
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Travel | Catherine Byron | CB
gave readings and workshops for the British Council
in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, about her experiences writing poetry for the web. |
Travel | Rebecca West | The first visit was a lecture tour arranged by the British Council
. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 148 |
Travel | Wendy Cope | WC
travelled to Amman in Jordan to give readings under the auspices of the British Council
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Travel | Helen Dunmore | HD
visited Berlin on a poetry-reading tour by Bloodaxe Books
authors, sponsored by the British Council
. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
Travel | Jackie Kay | JK
has done a good deal of professional travelling. In September 2003 she went to Nigeria (Abuja, Kano, and Lagos) to read her poetry on a tour for the British Council |
Travel | Elaine Feinstein | Her travels include trips undertaken for the British Council
, to Singapore to be writer in residence (1993) and to Tromsø in Norway. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Travel | Alison Fell | She has also held an academic appointment in Sydney, Australia, and travelled for research purposes to Chamonix in the French Alps, to the Pyrenees, and to opera performances in Germany. In... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Olivia Manning | The first trilogy draws on OM
's experience of the early years of the Second World War in eastern Europe. In both trilogies, British national concerns are disconcertingly filtered through people whose priorities and loyalties... |
Textual Production | Maggie Gee | MG
thanks many individuals and institutions (including the British Council
) for enabling her to amass considerable first-hand experience of Uganda in order to write this book. She contributed an article, A different view... |
Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | LC
wrote for the British Council
a little book on George Eliot
as one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News, also known as the Writers and Their Work series. British Book News. British Council. (1951): 673 |
Textual Production | Germaine Greer | GG
has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings
, Jeslyn Medoff
and Melinda Sansone
), Kissing the Rod, has played an... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | She followed it with a brief study of Coleridge done for the British Council
in 1953 (one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News), and with a critical Introduction to his selected Poems... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jennings | The British Council
issued at London and New York, 1961, a slim volume of EJ
's work, Poetry To-day, 1957-60, in its Bibliographical Series of Supplements to British Book News on Writers and their Work. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | The book was published for the British Council
and the National Book League
. There were later a number of revised editions. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research. 20: 288 |
Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | She had met Wilson, a fellow-novelist, on a British Council
visit to Wales, and had come to know him as well as to admire his writing. Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6-7. 7 |
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1934: The British Council was founded to promote...
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1934
The British Council
was founded to promote education abroad about Britain and British art.
August 2007: The British Council, promoter of British...
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August 2007
The British Council
, promoter of British culture in other countries, cut by forty million US dollars the cost of its activity in Europe, in order to expand its activities in the Middle East and...
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