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JT felt she was inadequately paid by the BBC for her radio plays, and they are often left unmentioned in the historical record.

AD has read two of these stories on BBC Radio 4 : Five Notes after a Visit (1986) and First Bite (1990).

Spark's editor, Alan Maclean , told her: You've hit the jackpot today.The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...

It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith . In a BBC radio broadcast in 1978, Pym noted that this novel had caused someone to comment upon her dislike of men, to...

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...

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.

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...

Reviewer John Pemble mentions the whole archive of mock research in pseudo-academic publications dedicated to [Holmes's] life and work. Contributors to the BBC 's centenary tribute in 1954 all expressed the hope that Holmes was...

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. Anne Wyatt-Brown thinks...

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...

The Man Who Stole a Tiger strikes a different note. It begins in Jerusalem but ranges as far as the Congo. A scrawny, tubercular soldier with a criminal record, presented without sympathy or understanding...

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...

The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells.Philip Larkin chose this poem (his only selection from...

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...

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 .