Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Dylan Thomas
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Standard Name: Thomas, Dylan
Birth Name: Dylan Marlais Thomas
DT
acquired instant fame as a very young man in the 1930s when his earliest poems were published. Throughout his short life he turned out journalistic hack work and reviews; as well as poetry he published short stories and essays. His most famous work is his radio drama Under Milk Wood, about the inhabitants of an imaginary Welsh village.
The novel traces the careers of a number of characters including the central figures of three writers, a woman and two men. For all of them those politically fraught years were their formative period. Kit...
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Cecily Mackworth
CM
's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le...
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Olivia Manning
New Stories also published Pamela Hansford Johnson
, Dylan Thomas
, and Stephen Spender
. OM
's title, which is challenging in a way that was characteristic for this stage of her career, comes from...
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Edith Sitwell
This incorporated Some Notes on My Own Poetry.
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985.
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It represented every stage of her career, right up to a few recent, uncollected poems like the Elegy for Dylan Thomas.
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Bryher
Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...
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Doreen Wallace
This correspondence had begun nearly a month before with a reader questioning the value of work produced under the influence, primarily by the recently-deceased Dylan Thomas
.
PHJ
's diaries and letters detailing her relationship with Dylan Thomas
are held by SUNY
at Buffalo, New York.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.