Penelope Gilliatt

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Standard Name: Gilliatt, Penelope

Connections

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Friends, Associates Penelope Mortimer
PM counted among her friends and acquaintances many well-known names from literature and the cinema. In Rome she met Bette Davis and Dirk Bogarde . In New York she met director Alain Resnais and producers...
Literary responses Muriel Spark
Penelope Gilliatt thought the evil in Seton had been to some extent absorbed by Bridges.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
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Evelyn Waugh pronounced this the cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark's clever and elegant books.
Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin, 1964.
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Publishing Elizabeth Jane Howard
Once she had secured an advance on her first novel, EJH was at once able to place a couple of pieces in Vogue. She later wrote reviews for a little magazine run by Nancy Spain
Publishing Penelope Mortimer
As Ann Temple, Penelope Dimont (later PM ) wrote a lonely hearts column for the Daily Mail. Later she reviewed novels in the Sunday Times and films in The Observer (where she succeeded...
Textual Production Enid Bagnold
One of EB 's motives in writing this book was to refute critics' negative responses to her plays. An early draft began with an open letter to someone she regarded as one of the worst...

Timeline

1 January 1916: The British edition of Vogue (an American...

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1 January 1916

The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast in Hanover Square, London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Spawls, Alice. “Does one flare or cling?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 40-2.

21 February 1924: The first issue appeared of the New Yorker...

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21 February 1924

The first issue appeared of the New Yorker magazine (still going strong in the twenty-first century).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 33-5.
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1971: Sunday, Bloody Sunday, a screenplay by Penelope...

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1971

Sunday, Bloody Sunday, a screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt that received an Oscar nomination, was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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, 1990.

1973: Penelope Gilliatt published Unholy Fools,...

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1973

Penelope Gilliatt published Unholy Fools, Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace, a book that explores the role of the comic, especially in film and theatre.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

July 1975: Contributing to her reputation as an important...

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July 1975

Contributing to her reputation as an important film critic, Penelope Gilliatt published a filmmaker's profile entitled Jean Renoir : Essays, Conversations, Reviews.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976

1976: Penelope Gilliatt published another study...

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1976

Penelope Gilliatt published another study of a French filmmaker: Jacques Tati.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

July 1977: Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt...

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July 1977

Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Book News. British Council.
(1977): June insert

1978: Penelope Gilliatt published The Cutting Edge:...

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1978

Penelope Gilliatt published The Cutting Edge: A Novel.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1980: Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections...

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1980

Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections by Penelope Gilliatt collected her various reviews and profiles of celebrities (including Nabokov , Hitchcock , Woody Allen , and Diane Keaton ).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1983: Penelope Gilliatt's novel Mortal Matters,...

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1983

Penelope Gilliatt 's novel Mortal Matters, published this year, is based on her childhood in the shipbuilding and coalmining region of Northumberland.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1988: Penelope Gilliatt published A Woman of Singular...

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1988

Penelope Gilliatt published A Woman of Singular Occupation, a novel.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1990: Penelope Gilliatt published this year both...

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1990

Penelope Gilliatt published this year both Lingo, a short-story volume, and To Wit: In Celebration of Comedy, a study of the genre.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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