Alan Sillitoe

RF married the man with whom she had been living for years, Alan Sillitoe (former RAF radio operator, now a suddenly successful novelist), at Marylebone Town Hall in London.

Alan Sillitoe , novelist, writer in many genres, and husband of the poet Ruth Fainlight , died of cancer, aged eighty-one.

In autumn 1950, in Nottingham with her husband, RF met a young, struggling, would-be writer, Alan Sillitoe , and they fell in love. The relationship prospered although her comments on the manuscript of his...

At this time Lessing's friends included a number of writers: Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe , Arnold Wesker and his wife Dusty, Naomi Mitchison , Ted Hughes , and R. D. Laing .

RF and Alan Sillitoe made the acquaintance of the poet Robert Graves in Mallorca. For some years they were regular guests at Graves's parties, and they continued to visit him in Mallorca until at...

While she was teaching at Essex, EF met a number of poets, including Ed Dorn , who fed her interest in American poetry. She was also involved during these years with a group including Tom Pickard

SP felt like an outsider in England. One highly promising friendship she made there was that with Ruth Fainlight , another aspiring young, female, married poet of US origin. But this was largely a friendship...

PB says that one stage she threw away the manuscript of this novel in despair, but her husband rescued it from the bin. She said she felt the absence of models for writing fiction...

RF collaborated on a slim volume of Poems with Ted Hughes and her husband, Alan Sillitoe . This was published in 1971 by Rainbow Press , an organization set up this year by Olwyn Hughes

RF and Alan Sillitoe made a rough crossing from Newhaven to Dieppe with a kitten in a home-made box, heading for a rented, unfurnished house called Le Nid near Menton in the French Alpes Maritimes.

Some of these essays were originally lectures given at conferences and symposiums in Europe or the United States. She says she might have called the book The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Experimenter, except that...

The critical opinion that ND belonged to the school of Angry Young Men associated her with Alan Sillitoe , John Osborne , and John Braine . The fact that these were each, in different...

All Citizens are Soldiers was published: a two-act play translated and adapted by RF and Alan Sillitoe from the Spanish Fuente Ovejuna, 1614, by Lope de Vega .