BB
's father, John Brophy
, was born in Liverpool of Irish stock. In 1914 he lied about his age and enlisted; his mother got him out of the army once by revealing he was...
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Phyllis Bentley
Disastrously, PB
's reputation as a regional novelist now turned on her: when booksellers learned that this novel was not set in Yorkshire, they began returning copies. She was always bitter about the fate of...
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Henry Handel Richardson
The Times Literary Supplement said HHR
had been scrupulous with the facts, had exercised the novelist's true function of revealing character by uncovering the secret places of the heart, and had revealed Cosima as the...
Timeline
1979: The principle of Public Lending Right or...
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1979
The principle of Public Lending Right or PLR, whereby government would remunerate authors for circulation of their books through public libraries, was set in place in the UK by the Public Lending Right Act.
