Joanna Lumley

EG 's novels, and their attempt at more open depiction of female sensuality and sexual subjects, have largely been forgotten since then, though Barbara Cartland in the late 1970s produced abridged editions of several (more...

NB sat on various literary committees: PEN International , the Society of Authors , and the Royal Society of Literature . She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists , following in...

After the completion of the tetralogy, a television series was made from the novels, though the BBC cut back from the first proposal of six episodes per book, to six from each of the first...