Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Harold Pinter
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Standard Name: Pinter, Harold
Pseudonym: David Baron
Pseudonym: Harold Pinta
Best-known as one of the leading British playwrights of the later twentieth century and as a Nobel Prize winner, HP
was also a poet, actor, theatre director, and writer of radio plays and screenplays both original and adapted. He was early recognised for stage violence, for comedy of menace and theatre of the absurd. His work became more urgently political with time. He stripped the excess fat from theatre dialogue, and mapped out his own distinctive theatrical topography: a place haunted by the ambivalence of memory, flecked by uncertainty, reeking of sex, and echoing with a strange, mordant laughter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Her family were highly educated, upper-class, Labour Party
supporters: English, although her Anglo-Irish father sometimes liked to declare himself an Irishman.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Pakenham, Francis Aungier Pakenham
He was an earl's son, but the second...
death
Frances Horovitz
On 3 December her friends and family held a Frances Horovitz Memorial Celebration at the Young Vic Theatre. Harold Pinter
, Anne Stevenson
, Roger Garfitt
, Michael Horovitz
, and others read, sang, and performed her poetry.
Horovitz, Michael, and Frances Horovitz. A Celebration of and for Frances Horovitz (1938-1983). New Departures, 1984.
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Dedications
Antonia Fraser
She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
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Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF
noted that she...
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
AF
made her second marriage, to Harold Pinter
, leading British playwright, with whom she had been living for about five years.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
122
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
She left Sir Hugh Fraser that year to live with Harold Pinter
. Her divorce came through on 16 December 1976. Sir Hugh died in 1984.
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19.
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Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
AF
first really met the high-profile dramatist Harold Pinter
, at a dinner party after which they spent the whole night together, talking.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
Having decided to live with the dramatist Harold Pinter
, AF
found herself about to be cited in a divorce action by his wife, Vivien Merchant
.
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19.
Among SB
's various friendships made in Paris, that with James Joyce
was the most formative. He was lucky not to lose his friendship with Nancy Cunard
when she tried to pin him down over...
Bennett, Ronan. “The Country Girl’s Home Truths”. Guardian Unlimited, 4 May 2002.
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Leisure and Society
Clemence Dane
In her last years, CD
greatly admired the film West Side Story (1961), and went to see Harold Pinter
's The Caretaker (1960) over and over again.
Amherst, Jeffrey John Archer, Earl. Wandering Abroad: the Autobiography of Jeffrey Amherst. Secker and Warburg, 1976.
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Literary responses
Ann Quin
Berg earned AQ
two major awards: the Harkness Fellowship, given to the most promising Commonwealth artist under thirty years, and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
WP
was touched and delighted when members of the National Theatre
audience (mostly white and relatively affluent) saw the likeness between their own parents and those on stage.
Stephenson, Heidi, and Natasha Langridge. Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. Methuen Drama, 1997.
In 1991 this play won her the...
Literary responses
Antonia Fraser
AF
was not happy when Harold Pinter
found the manuscript, at a relatively early stage, confusing.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
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Literary responses
Samuel Beckett
Dylan Thomas
called this novel Freud
ian blarney: Sodom and Begorrah.
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
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Iris Murdoch
recorded the lasting impression which it made on her when she first read it.
Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970.
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Harold Pinter
—who while trying to...
Timeline
December 1951: John Villiers Sankey began producing, on...
Writing climate item
December 1951
John Villiers Sankey
began producing, on a hand press housed in his bedroom, a little magazine called The Window, which he also edited.
Wynne-Tyson, Jon. Finding the Words: A Publishing Life. Michael Russell, 2004.
