Box, Muriel. The Big Switch. Macdonald, 1964.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Muriel Box | She dedicated it To Sydney
with love. Box, Muriel. The Big Switch. Macdonald, 1964. prelims |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | Muriel Baker
and the journalist and writer Sydney Box
, who were living together, got married at Holborn chiefly because their lawyer told them this would improve their chances in a libel suit. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | When Muriel Baker first read Sydney Box
's award-winning Murder Trial she wrote: A gem of a one-act play! She thought him likely to produce good work for films, and on this basis exchanged letters... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | Sydney Box
suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in late 1959. (His wife had been worrying for some time that he was killing himself.) This resulted in some holiday time, but soon he was as busy as... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Box | Ironically, MB
was directing a frothy comedy about adultery, Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 243 |
Occupation | Muriel Box | After separating from her first husband
, MB
became one of the founders of Femina Books
, the earliest British feminist publishing firm. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 248 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Muriel Box | As well as writing for film and returning to continuity work, MB
embarked during the Second World War on a career as a director, working at first for Verity Films
. This had been founded... |
Performance of text | Muriel Box | A comedy about wartime evacuees by Muriel
and Sydney Box
, Home from Home, opened at the Lyceum Theatre
, Edinburgh, after various delays and disappointments. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 150 |
Performance of text | Muriel Box | Muriel
and Sydney Box
's film The Seventh Veil opened at Leicester Square Theatre
(that is, cinema) and became a box-office hit. It brought them an Oscar for best original screenplay. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 182 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
Performance of text | Muriel Box | The play The Seventh Veil, adapted by Muriel
and Sydney Box
from their film of the same name, opened at the Prince's Theatre
in London after the harrassing work of revision. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 210 |
Author summary | Muriel Box | MB
, who collaborated with her first husband, Sydney
, in the mid twentieth century on numerous plays (the more than fifty which preceded the Second World War included two volumes of one-acters with all-female... |
Publishing | Muriel Box | In financial panic at the outbreak of the Second World War, Muriel and Sydney Box
sold the copyright in practically all the plays we had written to date to Samuel French, Ltd. for a thousand... |
Publishing | Muriel Box | During the Second World War, with Sydney Box
working for the Christian Herald, MB
sometimes helped him to fill his pages by contributing occasional verses of an uplifting tendency. These verses were printed like... |
Textual Features | Muriel Box | Some of the Boxes' joint screenplays tackle the struggle by women for equality; these include The Years Between, 1946, and Good Time Girl, 1948. A piano solo from The Years Between, printed... |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | MB
later wrote of her collaboration with Sydney
that he was an incurable optimist and she an incurable pessimist, so that together they made a nice balance. She also said he was good at taking... |