Mackay, Shena, editor. Such Devoted Sisters: An Anthology of Stories. Virago, 1993.
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Bette Davis
Standard Name: Davis, Bette
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Penelope Mortimer | PM
counted among her friends and acquaintances many well-known names from literature and the cinema. In Rome she met Bette Davis
and Dirk Bogarde
. In New York she met director Alain Resnais
and producers... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth von Arnim | Originally entitled The Birthday Party, this novel focuses on Fanny Skeffington, an aging socialite forced to come to terms with her deteriorating looks. The novel ends with Fanny's reconciliation with her estranged husband, a... |
| Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | The Scapegoat was made into a film adapted by Gore Vidal
, financed in part by Alec Guinness
and DDM
, directed by Robert Hamer
, starring Guinness and Bette Davis
. It was critically... |
| Textual Production | Shena Mackay | This pleasingly catholic selection of stories about sisters who are friends . . . and sisters who are not |
| Textual Production | Edith Wharton | Each tale occupies a volume, and each represents a decade of the nineteenth century. There are decorations by E. C. Caswell
. The Old Maid was later adapted as a film which starred Bette Davis |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jackie Kay | Kay balances anger and pain with a lively sense of humour. In The Life and Death of Bette Davis, the heroine emerges from the birth canal smoking a cigarette saying, / I never want... |
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