Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
281-2, 285-6
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Bessie Head | The publication of her first book added to the list of her epistolary friends: Giles Gordon
, her editor at |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Head | Her friendships with Giles Gordon
and Paddy Kitchen
each crashed in flames for reasons connected with BH
's writing (publishing negotiations or opinions expressed), but each was joyfully restored in 1980-1. Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press. 281-2, 285-6 |
Textual Features | Bessie Head | Cadmore is a teacher with brilliant credentials, and a visual artist whose drawings give dignity and value to ordinary life in the remote village of Dilepe and its oppressed and victimized people. She is also... |
Publishing | Bessie Head | From the beginning BH
sounded defensive about this work, fearing it might be hard to place. Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press. 168, 176 |
Publishing | Bessie Head | Success as a novelist did not put a stop to BH
's shorter and more topical writings. Soon after finishing Maru she was writing for the New African about singer Miriam Makeba
's music and... |
Textual Production | Bessie Head | In August 1980 BH
submitted to Giles Gordon
, who was once again her agent, six stories all linked to her historical research, though separate in their creation and in their subsequent fate. One of... |
Anthologization | Nadine Gordimer | NG
began writing short stories while working on her first novel; she published two hundred of them. Brockes, Emma. “A Life in Books. Nadine Gordimer”. The Guardian, pp. Review 12 - 13. Review 12 Walder, Dennis. “Nadine Gordimer obituary”. theguardian.com. |
Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights... |
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