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Textual Production | Nina Bawden | It was made into a film for BBC
television. |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | The collection, dedicated to JK
's adoptive mother, was published by Bloodaxe Books
in Newcastle upon Tyne, with a photograph of human chromosomes on the cover. Kay, Jackie. The Adoption Papers. Bloodaxe Books, 1991. prelims Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books, 1998. back cover |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)... |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength, Spark, Muriel. Voices At Play. Penguin, 1966. 7 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins
tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his... |
Textual Production | Jean Rhys | Diaz needed the author's permission for the performance, and on November 5th she put an advertisement in the New Statesman to find her. At this point, Rhys was living in obscurity in the country, and... |
Textual Production | Naomi Alderman | |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | BBC Radio 4
broadcast RT
's play One Night In Winter. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Textual Production | Olivia Manning | |
Textual Production | Jane Gardam | The title story was adapted for BBC
television in 1982. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (23 April 1982): 460 |
Textual Production | Louise Page | The BBC
published in 1997 Isabella. An Orphan Jilted, a spoof costume novel set in the eighteenth century by Mary Crewe, realized by Louise Page
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Buchi Emecheta | In 1987 BE
published Family Bargain, a book for schoolchildren commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation
. Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research, 1991. 66 Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1973–2024, Numerous volumes. 128: 54 |
Textual Production | Jean Rhys | Rhys heard from a friend in October 1956 that the BBC
were looking for her regarding a feature production of the novel. She wrote to them to encourage their plans, as it had been seven... |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | RM
was a hard-working critic, reviewer, and journalist. From the 1920s into the second world war she wrote for Time and Tide, The Spectator, and the New Statesman among other publications. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991. 206-7, 239 |
Textual Production | Alison Fell | The National Library of Scotland
holds a collection of AF
's diaries, notebooks, and drafts of poems, novels, plays, and radio and film scripts, audio recordings, programmes for BBC Radio Scotland
, letters, and photos... |
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