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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 218 |
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. 50 |
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. |
Textual Features | A. S. Byatt | |
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. (1951): 673 |
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. 7 |
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 |
Textual Production | Helen Dunmore | |
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. |