Beatrice Reckitt

Standard Name: Reckitt, Beatrice

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Family and Intimate relationships Penelope Lively
PL 's maternal grandmother, Beatrice Reckitt, née Hewett , married into the family that made Reckitt's Blue starch and other cleaning products. Eight years before Penelope's birth she moved from St Albans near London to...
Textual Production Penelope Lively
PL 's A House Unlocked (about her grandmother 's country house, Golsoncott, between Rodhuish and Roadwater in West Somerset) revealed a good deal about the sources of her fictional works.
Connolly, Cressida. “So many rooms—but no room for sentiment”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Sept. 2001, p. 17.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Penelope Lively
Its history of the house, Golsoncott, stands in for the history of the twentieth century. PL interleaves the stories of her remarkable grandmother and her aunt Rachel Reckitt with the stories of child evacuees sent...

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