Jaggi, Maya. “Pat Barker. Dispatches from the front”. The Guardian, pp. G2: 16 - 19.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Pat Barker | |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | 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... |
Textual Production | Nell Dunn | The critical opinion that ND
belonged to the school of Angry Young Men associated her with Alan Sillitoe
, John Osborne
, and John Braine
. Drabble, Margaret, and Nell Dunn. “Introduction”. Poor Cow, Virago, p. xi - xvi. ix |
Residence | Ruth Fainlight | 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. Sillitoe, Alan. Life without Armour. HarperCollins. 168-9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Fainlight | 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. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Evans-Bush, Katy. “The Poet Realized. An Interview with Ruth Fainlight”. Contemporary Poetry Review. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Fainlight | Alan Sillitoe
, novelist, writer in many genres, and husband of the poet Ruth Fainlight
, died of cancer, aged eighty-one. Bradford, Richard. Alan Sillitoe Obituary. The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | 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
. More than a decade before this... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Fainlight | In autumn 1950, in Nottingham with her husband, RF
met a young, struggling, would-be writer, Alan Sillitoe
, and they fell in love. Sillitoe, Alan. Life without Armour. HarperCollins. 159 |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | 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... |
Publishing | Ruth Fainlight | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Elaine Feinstein | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Doris Lessing | At this time Lessing's friends included a number of writers: Ruth Fainlight
and Alan Sillitoe
, Arnold Wesker
and his wife Diski, Jenny. “Doris and Me”. London Review of Books, Vol. 37 , No. 1, pp. 21-3. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Plath | 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... |