Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Paul Bailey
Standard Name: Bailey, Paul
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Jacob | After Sadie Robinson
, her next major relationship was with Marjorie Zamble
, a married woman with two children (according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Paul Bailey
does not mention her). |
Friends, Associates | Bernice Rubens | It was a friend from Cardiff, the poet Dannie Abse
, who introduced BR
to her future husband. Rubens was an almost lifelong friend of Beryl Bainbridge
. Other close friends were novelist Paul Bailey |
Leisure and Society | Naomi Jacob | NJ
claimed it was more practical and more economical to dress in male clothes: qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 69 |
Literary responses | Buchi Emecheta | Reviewers responded with a mixture of admiration and criticism. Observer critic Paul Bailey
saw much to praise in the vividness and sincerity of BE
's style, although he was put off by her constant attempts... |
Literary responses | Naomi Jacob | Paul Bailey
called this novel thumpingly terrible Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 158 Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 161 |
Literary responses | Naomi Jacob | An early review found this performance [f]ull of vivid snapshots of personages, literary, theatrical, and political, and prophesied that it deserved to be and would be a best-seller. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (7 September 1933): 591; (26 October 1933): 723 |
Literary responses | Naomi Jacob | Bailey
considers that although more recent biographers are more accurate (and although one of them, Midge Gillies
, accuses NJ
of romanticizing the music-hall), Jacob knew the audiences Lloyd played to—who could be rowdy and... |
Literary responses | Naomi Jacob | Paul Bailey
comments that Kelly merits a serious book, but The Irish Boy, be Jezus, isn't it. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 155 |
Literary responses | Naomi Jacob | As a highly productive popular author, NJ
has commanded almost no critical attention, although the Jewish and the lesbian aspects of her identity (both highly visible, the latter occluded for a long time for readers... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Taylor | It has been reprinted by Virago
, 1985, with an introduction by Paul Bailey
. |
Publishing | Elizabeth Taylor | The Virago
edition (Virago Modern Classics no. 135), 1984, has an introduction by Paul Bailey
. The novel was adapted for a film in 2007, which produced the same absurdly divided reviews that had... |
Publishing | Naomi Jacob | The book that NJ
's biographer Paul Bailey
considers the most durable of her works, a life of the music-hall performer Marie Lloyd
, Our Marie, was advertised as forthcoming on this day. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (4 April 1936): 295 Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 183 |
Textual Features | Naomi Jacob | NJ
's concept of character-drawing (according to biographer Paul Bailey
) was heavily reliant on stereotypes of racial or local disposition, shown through idiosyncratic, uneducated use of language. |
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Texts
Taylor, Elizabeth, and Paul Bailey. Angel. Virago, 1984.
Bailey, Paul. “Hokum writ large”. Times Literary Supplement, p. 20.
Taylor, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Angel, edited by Paul Bailey, Virago, 1989, p. v - ix.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.