Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Royde-Smith | Milton had his first big London success in 1922, and before Royde-Smith married him she had praised his magnetic performance as Hamlet. Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol. 218 , No. 6481, p. 21. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Renault | The Charioteer's focus on homosexuality caused great concern to MR
's publishers. She had not published anything for five years, and this novel was a significant departure from her earlier work. In Britain her... |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play No Man's Land opened at the National Theatre
: a two-hander employing the theatrical eminences John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
, directed by Peter Hall
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 15-17 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Margaret Kennedy | Kennedy co-wrote this play with producer Basil Dean
. Opening night in London was a smashing success and a production in New York followed shortly afterwards, to similar acclaim. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 81 |
Performance of text | Molly Keane | She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins
the same year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Molly Keane | She was in the middle of writing a play when her husband died, and she found she could not go on with it. She was still pretty desolate Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press. 130 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Jacob | NJ
said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott
. Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 174-6 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | She finished this novel while living in the house of her friend Ursula Vaughan Williams
(its dedicatee) after leaving Kingsley Amis
. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 429 |
Textual Features | Pam Gems | The play opens in Hollywood, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
regaling a new, American generation with her memories. It centres on her relationship with George Bernard Shaw
, but her life and career are also... |
Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | It was an inauspicious time for an opening, because of gathering war-clouds. Anne Ridler
later wrote, it was a great pity that Eliot had refused to offer the part [of Harry, the pivotal character] to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Craig | The actor John Gielgud
was EC
's second cousin. On occasion he performed at her Barn Theatre
in Kent. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 13 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 251 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare
performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud
and Sybil Thorndike
. Playwright Clemence Dane
gave a memorial speech... |
Textual Production | Edith Craig | EC
's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 233 |
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