John Mullan

Standard Name: Mullan, John

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Birth	Patricia Beer	PB was born at the seaport of Exmouth in Devon, the second daughter in her family and only fourteen months younger than her sister. She was, to use the word of her obituarist John Mullan
Literary responses	Andrea Levy	This novel won the Orange Prize and was also voted the best Orange prize-winner since the inception of the award. Levy, Andrea. Andrea Levy. 2010, http://www.andrealevy.co.uk/. At the Guardian Book Club mediated by John Mullan, one reader called the novel, approvingly,...
Literary responses	Patricia Highsmith	Critic John Mullan , re-evaluating Ripley's Game in connection with a recent film of it, takes it as occasion to comment on PH 's unusual tracing of continuity from one of her thrillers to the...
Textual Features	Patricia Beer	PB here considers a series of canonical authors, Austen , Eliot , Charlotte Brontë , and Elizabeth Gaskell , and the way that the Woman Question was handled in fiction. Critic John Mullan notes her...
Textual Production	Rose Tremain	RT published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor. Scholar John Mullan has related the title to others employing two abstract nouns, like Elizabeth Inchbald 's Nature and...

Timeline

2 June 2003

British Asian writer Monica Ali published her first novel, Brick Lane, to resounding success.

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Mullan, John. “Public faces and inner spaces”. The Guardian, 12 June 2004, p. Review 32.

Review 32

Smith, David, correspondent. “’It’s your shout, then we can start discussing V S Naipaul’”. The Observer, 15 Aug. 2004, p. 7.

O’Neill, Sean. “Asian leaders warn of violence against Brick Lane film”. Times, 22 July 2006, p. 28.

Lewis, Paul. “’You sanctimonious philistine’—Rushdie v Greer, the sequel”. The Guardian, 29 July 2006, p. 11.

Walter, Natasha. “The book burners do not speak for all of Brick Lane”. The Guardian, 1 Aug. 2006, p. 29.

26 September 2009

The Guardian newspaper carried a number of poems and short prose pieces commissioned in support of the 10:10 initiative to reduce carbon emissions.

“10:10 Review climate change special”. The Guardian, 26 Sept. 2009.

Texts

Mullan, John. “Around the Throne”. Guardian Unlimited.

Mullan, John. “Fast forward to the past”. The Guardian, p. G2: 32.

Mullan, John. “Guardian Book Club: Small Island by Andrea Levy”. The Guardian.

Mullan, John. “Obituary: Patricia Beer”. The Guardian, p. 18.

Mullan, John. “Of the poet and his lovers”. Guardian Weekly, p. 37.

Mullan, John. “Public faces and inner spaces”. The Guardian, p. Review 32.

Mullan, John. “Style council”. The Guardian, pp. Review 34 - 5.

Mullan, John. “The Book’s the Thing”. Guardian Unlimited.

Oliphant, Margaret. “The Life and Letters of George Eliot”. Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, edited by Gail Marshall et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2003, pp. 1: 139 - 80.