Paul Bailey

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).

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

NJ claimed it was more practical and more economical to dress in male clothes: men's tailored suits, generally with a tie, and her hair cropped. (She wore a skirt to Mass.) She adopted a...

Paul Bailey called this novel thumpingly terribleand used it to demonstrate Jacob's habit of signalling to her reader which characters to approve and which to disapprove.He was not impressed by NJ

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.

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...

Paul Bailey comments that Kelly merits a serious book, but The Irish Boy, be Jezus, isn't it.

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...

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...

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.

It has been reprinted by Virago , 1985, with an introduction by Paul Bailey .

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...

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.