The first monograph on IM
was that of 1965 by A. S. Byatt
, who faulted her for the inconsistency of her fiction with her expressed philosophic views. This study provoked further academic discussion, and...
Occupation
Margaret Drabble
She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company
under Peter Hall
, who was setting out...
Textual Features
Harold Pinter
Family Voices is about the difficulty of fully expressing parental or filial love. The very brief Victoria Station (involving the London railway station of that name) is based on an actual incident in a mini-cab....
Textual Production
Elizabeth Gaskell
There were nine editions of Cranford during EG
's lifetime, but another 160 appeared between her death and 1947 (almost as many in the USA as in Britain), and it appeared twice in German translations...
Textual Production
Lesley Storm
Three years later, Abem Finkel
and Lesser Samuels
adapted this play for film. The cinematic version, starring Rita Hayworth
and Lee Bowman
, was titled Tonight and Every Night. It turns Rosalind into an...
Textual Production
Pam Gems
She had started writing this fifteen years earlier. Finished in the form of a one-woman play, the script stayed fruitlessly for three years with Judi Dench
before PG
got it back for rewriting.
Gardner, Lyn. “Obituaries. Pam Gems”. The Guardian, 17 May 2011, p. 34.
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Cavendish, Dominic. “Passionate Pam, the odd woman out”. The Telegraph, 6 Mar. 2006.
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