Pam Gems
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Standard Name: Gems, Pam
Birth Name: Iris Pamela Price
Nickname: Pam
Married Name: Iris Pamela Gems
launched her playwrighting career in 1972 at the age of forty-seven. She went on to create a number of strong female roles, often recasting historical figures in unromanticized terms. In addition to her own twenty-plus plays, one of which she wrote for children,
adapted and translated ten foreign plays, and wrote two novels and several television screenplays.
Timeline
Texts
Gems, Pam. “Afterword to ’Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi’”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1982, pp. 71-3.
Gems, Pam. “Aunt Mary”. Plays by Women: Volume Three, edited by Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1984, pp. 13-46.
Gems, Pam. Camille. Samuel French, 1987.
Gems, Pam. Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi. Samuel French, 1977.
Gems, Pam. “Imagination and Gender”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 148-51.
Gems, Pam. “Loving Women”. Three Plays, Penguin, 1985, pp. 155-17.
Gems, Pam. Marlene. Oberon Books, 1996.
Gems, Pam. Mrs. Frampton. Bloomsbury, 1989.
Gems, Pam. “Not in their name”. Guardian Unlimited.
Gems, Pam. Piaf. Amber Lane Press, 1979.
Gems, Pam. Plays One. Oberon, 2002.
Gems, Pam. “Putting on the Style”. Plays by Women: Volume Three, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1984, pp. 47-8.
Gems, Pam. Queen Christina. St Luke’s Press, 1982.
Gems, Pam. Stanley. Nick Hern Books, 1996.
Gems, Pam. The Snow Palace. Oberon Books, 1998.
Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985.
Gems, Pam. “Whose play is it anyway?”. Guardian Unlimited.