During NJ
's lifetime Harold Lang
not only guyed her in private gatherings of friends, but used her voice and mannerisms to help him interpret several stage roles.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Fictionalization
Naomi Jacob
BBC
radio aired a play by Harold Lang
and Kenneth Tynan
, The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ
played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Friends, Associates
Naomi Jacob
In Italy she knew (though she seems not to have thought much of) the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio
. Her biographer says she was covertly in love with her friend the singer Gina Cigna
. In...
Occupation
Naomi Jacob
Briefly back in London in 1944, she returned to the stage as the mother of a troupe of performing acrobats in a stage adaptation of Margery Sharp
's novel The Nutmeg Tree.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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In...
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
Savage
was forced to tell her, from Hutchinson
, that her sales had slumped and that her mode of writing was considered out of date. She blamed the messenger for the news, and never forgave...