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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Molly Keane | Molly's close friends included novelist Elizabeth Bowen
and actress Peggy Ashcroft
. Visiting the Perry family home at Woodrooff, she met John Perry
, who later collaborated with her on plays, and Bobby Keane
... |
Friends, Associates | Harold Pinter | Simon Gray
was Pinter's favourite living playwright and favourite friend. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010. 273 |
Leisure and Society | Christopher St John | John Gielgud
and Peggy Ashcroft
performed in Twelfth Night in the Barn Theatre; it was on this night that CSJ
first met her new neighbours Vita Sackville-West
and Harold Nicolson
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 251 |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | The play was a success with London audiences and critics. In The Observer, Kenneth Tynan
claimed that the West End Theatre justified its existence with this production of the finest artificial comedy to have... |
Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | Following its success on Broadway, EB
's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
, directed by John Gielgud
and starring Peggy Ashcroft
and Edith Evans
. Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991. 160-2 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 192 |
Performance of text | George Paston | Nigel Playfair
directed GP
's play When Adam Delved, at the little Q Theatre
on Kew Bridge, London, with the nineteen-year-old Peggy Ashcroft
. The play remains unpublished. Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991. 27 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 875 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
politics | Marghanita Laski | On 30 October 1958 ML
was one of the signatories to a letter to the editor of theTimes urging the government to cease testing nuclear weapons; others who signed included Peggy Ashcroft
, Storm Jameson |
Publishing | Molly Keane | Her children were grown up and she was, she says, doing nothing. She began writing in the same secrecy as at the beginning of her career, still finding the process painful. Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988. 131 |
Textual Features | Diana Athill | Part two, introduced by some comment on the nature of the relationship between writer and publisher, provides sketches and stories of many of the authors whom DA
worked with. Though she does not belabour the... |
Textual Production | Bernice Rubens | Writing a second novel, she said, was inevitable after the first, and after that she was hooked. Rubens, Bernice. When I Grow Up. Time Warner Books, 2005. 139 Rubens, Bernice. When I Grow Up. Time Warner Books, 2005. 10 |
Textual Production | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Notable among RPJ
's television scripts was the four-part London Weekend Television
series adapted from Paul Scott
's The Raj Quartet in 1978; it was shown both on the wide screen and on tv, entitled... |
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