Taylor, Lib. “Early Stages: Women Dramatists 1958-68”. British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook, edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones, Open University Press, pp. 9-25.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Enid Bagnold | Despite the talented cast, the play was not a success and closed within a month. Taylor, Lib. “Early Stages: Women Dramatists 1958-68”. British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook, edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones, Open University Press, pp. 9-25. 13 |
Occupation | Hélène Barcynska | As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB
founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players
, because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they... |
Performance of text | Muriel Box | MB
was still working as a continuity girl (responsible for keeping tracks of props and details of sets and shooting) when she wrote this play. It was apparently first professionally staged (as opposed to productions... |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | Some of MB
's scriptwriting left almost no trace on the subsequent record of works produced communally. For instance, The Astonished Heart, released in 1950, is listed as a British film starring Noël Coward |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Box | The contributions they flagged with their own names on the title-page were called Strictly Personal and A—Zoo. A characteristic example of the former is a verse on Noël Coward
to the tune of My... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | It was, however, the second son, Maurice
, who proved their father's favourite, and his status affected his treatment of his younger sisters. Sylvia writes of him as a plump little boy with rosy cheeks... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Cartland | BC
delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club
, as did Michael Arlen
, Cecil Beaton
, Charlie Chaplin
, and Gloria Vanderbilt
, and she counted... |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Among CD
's many friends were Sybil Thorndike
, Lewis Casson
, Noël Coward
, and Alfred Hitchcock
. Coward valued her friendship and her perceptive criticism of his work very highly, and used her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. M. Delafield | EMD
's mother, Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle (Bonham) de la Pasture
, was a popular and prolific novelist whose work was admired by writers as far-ranging as Ivy Compton-Burnett
and Evelyn Waugh
. She wrote to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
wrote a play about her relationship with Ellen, September Tide, which disguised the lesbian nature of that relationship. In it Gertrude Lawrence
(a performer celebrated for acting in Noël Coward
's plays) took... |
Literary responses | Rumer Godden | RG
told her sister that this book had only a mention of an animal—one cat—hardly any flowers and not a single live child. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 240 |
Friends, Associates | Radclyffe Hall | During the 1920s, RH
and Una Troubridge
were friends with a wide range of writers, actors, and artists, including Ida Wylie
, Romaine Brooks
, Natalie Barney
, Noël Coward
, Tallulah Bankhead
, and... |
Textual Features | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness contains elements of the roman à clef. Two of its characters, Valérie Seymour and Jonathan Brockett, are based on Natalie Barney
and Noël Coward
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 83, 269 |
Dedications | Irene Handl | The success of IH
's earlier novel encouraged her to publish a sequel to it, The Gold Tip Pfitzer. She dedicated it to Noel Coward
, from whom she said she had learned a... |
Occupation | Irene Handl | By the 1950s she was well-known, had branched out into the new medium of television, and was taking on roles of increased size and importance: for instance, on stage, the medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward |
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