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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
Consensus has so far eluded readers of BP . Popular and respected early in her career, discarded by hardnosed publishers as old-fashioned, dramatically resuscitated to bestseller status by the combined power of the BBC ...
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 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.
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In 2014 Rebecca Mead published her very successful My Life in Middlemarch (USA) or...
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 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
The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...
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 Josephine Tey
JT felt she was inadequately paid by the BBC for her radio plays, and they are often left unmentioned in the historical record.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press, 2015.
226-7
Textual Features Kathleen Jamie
This collection keeps in mind the Scots element in the title as well as the birth element. It interprets the latter broadly to include various metaphorical kinds of birth and renewal. KJ writes here in...
Textual Features Alice Meynell
The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells.
Larkin, Philip, editor. The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse. Clarendon Press, 1973.
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Philip Larkin chose this poem (his only selection from...
Textual Features Wendy Cope
Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...
Textual Features Wendy Cope
The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up...
Textual Features Viola Meynell
Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
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Textual Features Lesley Storm
This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

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