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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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John Drinkwater
John Drinkwater
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Drinkwater, John
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Prominent in the Players' repertoire were the one-act plays to which
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then moved on. They began touring in autumn 1913, travelling on bicycles with a pony-cart or wagon for their fairly minimal curtains and...
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1 January 1913
Harold Monro
opened the
Poetry Bookshop
at
35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in Bloomsbury
.
6 March 1924
The
BBC
presented the first broadcast poetry reading, by the poet
John Drinkwater
.