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made several new friends during her seventies. They included Sorbonne professor Gabriel Boucé
, the German poet Fred Marnau
and his wife Senta
, the novelist Kate O'Brien
, and the actress Elizabeth Sprigge
Performance of text
Anne Ridler
Henry Bly was written for Martin Browne
's Mercury Theatre
, but only got as far as a read-through by the Poets Theatre Guild
before Browne's tenure of the theatre lapsed. Another of these plays,...
Textual Production
Ivy Compton-Burnett
The manuscript had been due in August 1964. At that time she told Gollancz then that it was not ready, but in a lamentable state.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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She worked on it to the end: a week...
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Texts
Sprigge, Elizabeth, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. “Foreword”. The Last and the First, Gollancz, 1971, pp. 7-12.
Stein, Gertrude, and Elizabeth Sprigge. Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures: 1909-1945. Editor Meyerowitz, Patricia, Penguin, 1971.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy et al. The Last and the First. Gollancz, 1971.