Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Harold Lang
Standard Name: Lang, Harold
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Fictionalization | Naomi Jacob | 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. 176-8 |
| 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. 167 |
| 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, that her sales had slumped and that her mode of writing was considered out of date.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... |
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