Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Dodie Smith | DS
was shocked and saddened by the death of her beloved husband and companion, Alec Beesley
. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 318 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dodie Smith | While she was acting at the Everyman Theatre
, DS
had a brief fling with its founder, Norman MacDermott
. In 1927, a few years after she began working at Heal's
, she began an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dodie Smith | When she became a successful playwright, DS
lost interest in Heal (and in sex altogether, according to her journals). She soon became romantically involved with her friend Alec Beesley
. Their relationship was never passionate... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dodie Smith | DS
's friend and manager, Alec Beesley
(together with Esmé Wynne
), gave her a birthday gift that proved to be an important literary inspiration: a Dalmatian named Pongo. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 90-1 Whelehan, Imelda et al., editors. “A doggy fairy tale: The film metamorphoses of The Hundred and One DalmatiansAdaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text, Routledge, 1999, pp. 214-25. 214 Wynne-Tyson, Jon. Finding the Words: A Publishing Life. Michael Russell, 2004. 84 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dodie Smith | DS
and Alec Beesley
, who had been companions for about a decade, were married in a private civil ceremony in Philadelphia. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 123-4 |
Friends, Associates | Dodie Smith | In the summer of 1969, DS
was introduced to a young writer, Julian Barnes
, through one of her husband's relatives. She was the first professional writer whom he had met. Barnes wrote about his... |
Residence | Dodie Smith | With the prospect of war looming, DS
and Alec Beesley
moved to the United States, where they stayed for thirteen years. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 114, 118 |
Residence | Dodie Smith | DS
and her husband
returned to England, where they soon settled back into their seventeenth-century cottage, The Barretts, near Finchingfield in Essex. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 215, 221 |
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