qtd. in
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. Penguin, 2001.
prelims
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Characters | Caryl Churchill | The play explores women's quest for success in patriarchal society, and the expense at which this success is achieved, particularly in relation to motherhood. It has been considered as a kind of answer to Nell Dunn |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ali Smith | Don Smith
was born in about 1924 and grew up in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where he came from a long line of psychics (he himself claimed to have woken up to see the ghost of... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Bawden | NB
was a contemporary at Somerville of the future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
, with whom she had a political argument (which she felt that she lost). She was very briefly a friend of actor... |
Literary Setting | Zadie Smith | The book's epigraph from Shakespeare
's The Tempest (What's past is prologue) qtd. in Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. Penguin, 2001. prelims Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. Penguin, 2001. 83 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Hilary Mantel | HM
collected a volume of nine stories, all published already and dating as far back as 1993, called The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. The title piece, begun years before, was completed when Mantel, in... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Sarah Daniels | SD
later observed that during the 1980s, her debut decade, the stage was becoming a harsher environment as the wave of radicalism ebbed and conditions worsened. Margaret Thatcher
(who became Prime Minister on 4 May... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Judith Kazantzis | According to her later explanation, the dropping of poetry was a direct result of the policies of the Margaret Thatcher
era: the result was that plans for a third volume of JK
's work from... |
Occupation | Marghanita Laski | ML
served as Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council
for these four years, during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (25 February 1982): 11 |
Performance of text | Ali Smith | At |
Performance of text | Ali Smith | Early among these works by Smith was Stalemate (1986), her first Fringe
feature, a take off of Thatcherism performed by a company of undergraduate women called qtd. in Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, 2006, pp. 186-29. 197 Trouble and strife traditionally... |
politics | Gillian Allnutt | In the ten houses which comprised Richmond Avenue Housing
(off the Caledonian Road) GA
and the other members of the co-op lived as squatters and then as short-life tenants under the Greater London Council |
politics | Harold Pinter | Pinter voted Tory in May 1979 (when Margaret Thatcher
became Prime Minister) in reaction against trade union intransigence (which had threatened a play he was directing at the National Theatre
), and SDP in June... |
politics | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
is a socialist and a feminist. She nevertheless describes herself as less political than most of her relations (except, perforce, during the Margaret Thatcher
years), as if her energy had gone into poetry instead... |
politics | Antonia Fraser | In December 1978 AF
voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher
but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and... |
politics | Patricia Highsmith | PH
's political opinions were riddled with contradictions. On some issues she was a reactionary, even a racist. Yet she took intensely to heart such incidents of individual or international violence as the shooting of... |