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Robert Bolt
Standard Name: Bolt, Robert
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Mary Wesley | MW
published Second Fiddle, another novel, dedicated to her friend the dramatist Robert Bolt
. It is darker in tone than the ones immediately preceding it. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Fictionalization | Lady Caroline Lamb | The other great love of her life, her husband, was equally productive for fictionalized versions of her character and doings. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography cites among novels dealing with her marriage Thomas Lister |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Wesley | Even when they lived in a remote spot, the Siepmanns' circle of close literary friends included Nancy Mitford
, Graham Greene
, Antonia White
, and Emily Coleman
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Mary Wesley | Robert Bolt
pronounced this book to be [f]ar and away the best you have written, funny, wise, witty and above all surprising. He enjoyed its frankness about sexual detail. Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus. 221 |
| Publishing | Mary Wesley | This title had been used by several other novelists. MW
had written about Bolt
under the title My Hero, in a series carried by the Independent. Her advance for this novel was £30,000... |
| Textual Production | Mary Wesley | It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)... |
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