Derek Parker

Standard Name: Parker, Derek

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Reception Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
Interest in her has grown recently. Derek Parker 's biography, The Trampled Wife:the scandalous life of Mary Eleanor Bowes, appeared in 2006,
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
and Wendy Moore 's, Wedlock, in 2009. However, Deborah Friedell ...
Textual Features Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
It is rambling or digressive in structure, with repetitions, grammatical slips and factual slips corrected but not deleted, and recorded moments of interruption. Her biographer Ralph Arnold believed it to be largely truthful up to...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
John Lehmann and Derek Parker had published an earlier collection with the same title in 1970, but it was less valuable than it could have been because Edith's surviving brother, Sacheverell, decreed that all family...
Violence Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
His various hired accomplices, some dressed as constables, brandished at her servants a warrant for their arrest (obtained by bribery), ordered her coachman off his coach at pistol-point while she was in a shop, and...

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Texts

Parker, Derek et al. “Echo and Eclogue”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 98-102.
Parker, Derek. “On the Side”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 86-8.
Parker, Derek. “Onward to 3000”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 166-8.
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.