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Occupation | Elaine Feinstein | EF
's introduction to Russian literature, which set her seriously reading and then translating Russian authors, significantly influenced her thinking. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 14 |
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... |
Reception | Alison Fell | Judith Kazantzis
praised the poems in this collection as [f]ine, spare yet fluent, occasionally redblooded, exuberant with assured depictions of bleak blowy landscapes which are nevertheless beautiful. Fell, Alison. Kisses for Mayakovsky. Virago. cover |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alison Fell | The British Council
website on contemporary authors sees AF
's poetry as an influence on that of Kathleen Jamie
and perhaps Kate Clanchy
. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Literary responses | Jane Gardam | The TLS reviewer, Ruth Scurr
, used as yardstick for this novel Kipling
's writings about his parallel childhood trauma and experience of evil (related in the story Baa Baa Black Sheep). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (12 November 2004): 21 |
Employer | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
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 | 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... |
Reception | P. D. James | PDJ
held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC
(1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council
at the Arts Council of Great Britain |
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. |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Jennings | The Leamington Poetry Society
published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ
's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987. 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 | Pamela Hansford Johnson | In late 1951 she wrote a booklet for the British CouncilWriters and their Work series on Ivy Compton-Burnett
, who was only just beginning to attract attention among those interested in the craft of... |
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 |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | On invitation from the British Council
, Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
visited Finland: F. R. lectured and Q. D. led seminars at the universities of Helsinki and Abo (the Swedish name of what... |
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