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Textual Production Fleur Adcock
She appeared with six other poets in Portfolio no. 3 from London's Steam Press in 1979 (an actual portfolio of separate leaves, published in fifty signed and numbered copies, in a black cover with illustrations...
Employer Elizabeth Bowen
EB began lecturing for the British Council , with a first tour to Czechoslovakia and Austria.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
EB published English Novelists, one in a series of literary guides issued by the British Council .
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas.
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Occupation Muriel Box
The first film she directed was The English Inn, 1941, described on the British Film Institute website as a typical Verity propaganda short produced for the British Council .
Spicer, Andrew. “Box, Muriel (1905-1991)”. British Film Institute (bfi): screenonline.
After this came a setback....
Textual Features A. S. Byatt
This discusses Murdoch's first eight novels. An enlarged Vintage paperback reprint of about thirty years later, entitled Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch, adds ASB 's later writings on Murdoch: essays...
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.
Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Rebecca Blasco.
Reception Ivy Compton-Burnett
During the early part of ICB 's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger...
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.
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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.
Occupation Margaret Drabble
She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company under Peter Hall , who was setting out...
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.
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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.
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Textual Production Helen Dunmore
Throughout the 1980s HD gave many readings of her works: at literary festivals, and at schools, colleges, libraries, clubs, and prisons. Her poetry was also featured on BBC radio (several different programmes) and television. As...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE and Maggie Gee jointly edited NW15: The Anthology of New Writing Volume 15 (in a series whose titles have seen several changes), published through Granta and the British Council .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Literary responses Ruth Fainlight
Jules Smith has written on the British Council 's website on contemporary writers: Like her poetry, Fainlight's fiction is precisely observed, often poignant, full of passions below its intellectual surface, and at times genuinely disturbing.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.

Timeline

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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British Book News. British Council.