Shapcott, Jo. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998. Faber and Faber, 2000.
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Birth | Jo Shapcott | Her mother was still in hospital when Queen Elizabeth
was crowned, and held her baby up to the window to see the great / procession, so she said. Shapcott, Jo. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998. Faber and Faber, 2000. 9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | Later relations of MEBCS
include Queen Elizabeth II
(through her mother
, who was born a Bowes-Lyon) and John Bowes
, the Victorian illegitimate son who built and endowed the splendid Bowes Museum
in County Durham. |
Literary Setting | A. S. Byatt | ASB
says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind. qtd. in Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, 2004, pp. 36-53. 43 |
Literary Setting | Rose Tremain | Tremain's butler, Jack Sadler, has been left by his employers the great house (modelled on RT
's mother's ancestral home, Linkenholt Manor in Hampshire, in which he served them during his working career. He... |
Occupation | Jan Morris | While studying and writing for the student newspaper, Cherwell, Morris also established contact with The Times, then took a job as a sub-editor and junior leader-writer, then as foreign correspondent with the newspaper... |
Occupation | Emma Tennant | Her first season involved not only being formally presented to the queen
, much formal dressing and a round of lunches and dances, but also her own coming-out ball. For this her parents provided a... |
Publishing | Queen Victoria | The unpublished writings of QV
are in the Royal Archives at Windsor. Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal 1858-1861, edited by Roger Fulford, Evans Brothers, 1964, p. various pages. ix |
Publishing | Alison Uttley | |
Publishing | Dorothy Brett | DB
's article The King
is Crowned, solicited by the New Yorker's Kyle Crichton
, reached print in time for Queen Elizabeth II
's coronation. Brett, Dorothy. “The King is Crowned”. The New Yorker, 23 May 1953, pp. 56-64. Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts, 1985. 247-8 |
Reception | Frances Burney | FB
never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson
published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan
's... |
Reception | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
was one of those in the running for the position of Poet Laureate in succession to Robert Bridges
in summer1929. She later secretly hoped to succeed Bridges' successor, John Masefield
, and wrote a... |
Reception | Ruth Pitter | RP
received more recognition during her lifetime from the bestowers of literary awards and from fellow-writers than from the critics. In 1955 she became the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry... |
Reception | Edna O'Brien | In May 2011 EOB
was one of fifteen Irish people chosen by the President of Ireland to attend a lunch with Queen Elizabeth
of Britain. This historic occasion was the first visit by a reigning... |
Reception | Fleur Adcock | After Ted Hughes
died on 28 October 1998, FA
's name was put forward as Poet Laureate. This honour went, however, to Andrew Motion
. Adcock had already won the Cholmondeley Award in 1976, received... |
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