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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 | 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... |
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... |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 | |
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... |
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