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Reception | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
Reception | Claire Luckham | Tremendously popular with audiences, the play was performed in several cities in Britain and internationally, besides being adapted for BBC
television. In Japan, audiences saw the play as a tragedy about a woman's inability... |
Reception | Enid Blyton | Derek McCulloch
of the BBC
, producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin
reiterating that no material by EB
was ever to be used. O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol. 34 , No. 21, 8 Nov. 2012, pp. 5-8. 5 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | Initially, this novel sold fewer copies than any of BP
's previous books. Even after an excerpt was broadcast on BBC
's Woman's Hour in 1965, sales continued to be low. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992. 103-4 |
Reception | Enid Blyton | During the second world war EB
's reputation ensured her access to paper despite shortages and to her publisher's list despite the curtailment of such lists in general. She received practically no rejections of her... |
Reception | Barbara Pym | |
Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
Reception | Josephine Tey | Tey's novel was made into a BBC
television movie in 1986. It was also the unacknowledged basis for the 1963 film Paranoiac, directed by Freddie Francis
. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. Penguin, 1980. front cover |
Reception | George Eliot | The novel has never been a feature film, but was adapted as a highly successful BBC
television series in 1994. Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996. 529 |
Reception | Josephine Tey | |
Reception | Anne Devlin | AD
has read two of these stories on BBC Radio 4
: Five Notes after a Visit (1986) and First Bite (1990). Devlin, Anne. The Way-Paver. Faber and Faber, 1986. prelims “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Spark's editor, Alan Maclean
, told her: You've hit the jackpot today. qtd. in Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992. 213 |
Reception | George Eliot | A BBC
adaptation of the novel, 2002, made marital rape a major feature in its interpretation of Grandcourt's silent cruelty which, as critic Andrew Dowling
notes, operates as a sign of some truth beyond itself... |
Reception | Doris Lessing | This novel was, however, highly and perceptively praised by Anita Brookner
in a retrospective review reprinted in her Soundings, 1997. The Royal Swedish Academy
in 2007 called it one of the handful of books... |
Reception | Rosemary Sutcliff | The TLS review pronounced that RS
had steadily improved at her craft, but that the book under review still had drawbacks: over-sweetness of writing and some sentimentality in the personal relationships. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2755 (19 November 1954): 748 |
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