The New York Times called this one of the three collaborators' best films as well as one of the best adaptations of a major literary work ever to come onto the screen.
qtd. in
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
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This film...
Occupation
Margaret Drabble
She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company
under Peter Hall
, who was setting out...
Occupation
Irene Handl
By the 1950s she was well-known, had branched out into the new medium of television, and was taking on roles of increased size and importance: for instance, on stage, the medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward
Performance of text
Muriel Spark
Macmillan
recognised the exceptional appeal of this novel with a print-run of 15,150, more than twice that of Spark's previous novel. Its appearance was followed by another massive row with the firm in the person...
politics
Shelagh Delaney
SD
was arrested (along with John Osborne
and Vanessa Redgrave
) when she took part in an anti-nuclear demonstration at Trafalgar Square with the Committee of 100
.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Features
Caryl Churchill
The stage presented Vanessa Redgrave
as US President's wife Laura Bushseated graciously at an Iraqi children's play group. Only the children were all dead. The visitor asked each child: And how did you die...
Textual Features
Jeanette Winterson
Set in the late 1950s, the story features five characters, whose lives connect for seven days as they journey by boat from the Caribbean to England. It is a mystery and a love story...
Timeline
18 March 1958: The attendance of debutantes at Court for...
Building item
18 March 1958
The attendance of debutantes at Court for formal presentation to the Queen
took place for the final time.
Hill, Rosemary. “Taunted with the Duke of Kent, she married the Aga Khan”. London Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2006, pp. 22-3.
22-3
17 March 1968: In London's biggest anti-Vietnam-War demonstration...
National or international item
17 March 1968
In London's biggest anti-Vietnam-War demonstration so far, about 10,000 people demonstrated peacefully in Trafalgar Square before marching to Grosvenor Square, where violence broke out.
“1968: Anti-Vietnam demo turns violent”. BBC News: On This Day, 17 Mar. 1968.