British Council

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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 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.
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
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...
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.
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...
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....
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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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...

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