Mark Bostridge

Standard Name: Bostridge, Mark

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Storm Jameson
While he studied at the London School of Economics, Jameson supported their household, sometimes taking on more commercial work rather than devoting herself to further intellectual experiment. In their biography of Vera Brittain ,...
Friends, Associates Vera Brittain
In summer 1942 she struck up a friendship with Paul Berry , a distant cousin of Winifred Holtby's, whom Brittain thought a charming young man. Berry was a pacifist and semi-conscientious objector (he was working...
Literary responses Penelope Lively
With this book PL was a second time shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Moran, Mary Hurley. Penelope Lively. Twayne.
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An actual biographer, Mark Bostridge , called this a fine book, and said he relished the parallels with his actual situation...
Literary responses Florence Nightingale
In 1984 the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment celebrated the life of FN in a play devised by Chris Bowler and entitled Enslaved by Dreams.
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books.
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In Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend...
Literary responses Isabella Hamilton Robinson
Kate Summerscale 's Miss Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady, 2012, has renewed interest in IHR . Summerscale reprints excerpts of the diary (which has never been published in its entirety...

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Texts

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Archives”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 62-7.
Bostridge, Mark. Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend. Viking, 2008.
Bostridge, Mark. “Ipplepen”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 96-112.
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 181-5.
Bostridge, Mark. “Mrs Robinson’s diary”. The Times Literary Supplement.
Fraser, Antonia. “Optical Research”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 113-17.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. “Personality Rights”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 7-10.
Forster, Margaret. “Rebecca’s Ghost”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 52-6.
Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
Bainbridge, Beryl. “Waiting for the Biographer”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 206-11.
Harman, Claire. “Who Is Sylvia?”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 196-01.