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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
met Arthur Koestler
at a party and was bowled over by his whirlwind energy, but when he proposed marriage she had enough sense to counter-suggest living together for some months instead to see how... |
Fictionalization | Naomi Jacob | BBC
radio aired a play by Harold Lang
and Kenneth Tynan
, The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ
played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 180-1 |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | The play was a success with London audiences and critics. In The Observer, Kenneth Tynan
claimed that the West End Theatre justified its existence with this production of the finest artificial comedy to have... |
Literary responses | Samuel Beckett | Reviews by Harold Hobson
and Kenneth Tynan
were instrumental in the sensation created by this play in Britain. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Brownstone, David, and Irene Franck. Timelines of the Arts and Literature. HarperCollins, 1994. 504 |
Literary responses | Pearl S. Buck | Kenneth Tynan
, reviewing the play, found it wooden and undramatic,but wrote that Buck could be forgiven a good deal for the sake of her commitment to the side of life. Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996. 343 |
Literary responses | Germaine Greer | A contemporary street-level response, an article written by Robert Greenfield
for Rolling Stone in early 1971, gives an idea of the popular impression of Greer in England at this date, before The Female Eunuch had... |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Edmund Wilson
disliked this work, apparently because the communist in it is just as ridiculous as the stockbroker, so that no authoritative, authorized, left-wing voice is supplied. qtd. in Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001. 406 qtd. in Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001. 405 |
Occupation | Naomi Jacob | Briefly back in London in 1944, she returned to the stage as the mother of a troupe of performing acrobats in a stage adaptation of Margery Sharp
's novel The Nutmeg Tree. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 167 |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | With Claud Cockburn
, Cyril Connolly
, Kenneth Tynan
, Peter Forster
, Wynford Vaughan Thomas
, and Steven Watson
, ML
co-wrote the script for the BBC
television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb. Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy. |
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