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Enid Bagnold | | Variant Name: |
A Lady of Quality, Enid (Algerine) Bagnold | | Birth Date: |
October 27, 1889 | | Death Date: |
March 31, 1981 | | Nationality: |
British, English | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Enid Bagnold
3798 words, approx. 12.7 pages
 Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden was the most commercially successful play in Great Britain in 1956, the year of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, but in many ways Bagnold's form of theater belongs to a generation eclipsed by the changes wrought by Osbor... summary from source:
Biography of Enid Bagnold
3695 words, approx. 12.3 pages
When Enid Bagnold 's first play, Lottie Dundass, opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London in the summer of 1943, its author was fifty-three with a twenty-five-year career as novelist behind her. The next twenty-three years she would devote to the theat... summary from source:
Biography of Enid Bagnold
3600 words, approx. 12 pages
Enid Bagnold was the only daughter--and for the first six years of her life the only child--of Arthur Henry Bagnold and Ethel Alger Bagnold. Bagnold admits that her parents doted on her as a child: "You'd have thought I was the Infant Jesus," she wrote i...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Boston Globe National Film Critics Tap 'blue Velvet'
01/05/1987: 525 words, approx. 2 pages NEW YORK - Blue Velvet," David Lynch's nightmarish comedy about the dark side of smalltown America, yesterday dominated the National Society of Film Critics' Awards. It won four, including best film and best director. The best actor award went to Bob Hoskins for his... summary from source:
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 AP Features New guide to literary Monterey, Calif.
1/30/2007: 420 words, approx. 1 pages A new tourism map of Monterey County can help you plan a literary pilgrimage to places associated with John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many other writers.The "Scenes For Your Senses Literary & Film Map," produced by the Monterey County Convention... summary from source:
The New York Observer New Brando Collection: Reflections Goes Gold
12/10/2006: 1,161 words, approx. 4 pagesStudios almost never admit to being wrong. So Warner Bros.’ decision to release John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye in its original tinted version is not only a major act of restoration, but a major act of humility. (The film is available as part...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Harriet Colby
532 words, approx. 2 pages
In no sense a fantasy, ["National Velvet"] is still the kind of book which it is best not to try to resist; it should be allowed to cast its spell with the full consent of the reader. Rightly and high-handedly allowing no room for quibbles as to whether the events described were probable, the author merely gives them a lucid actuality—saying take it or leave it, here it is. Wise readers will take it and like it…. Velvet does not walk or run; she trots or canters. Her love for hor... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Edith H. Walton
378 words, approx. 1 pages
Except for its sharpness of observation and its delicate humor, there is little to connect the author of "National Velvet" with this informal diary, written when Miss Bagnold was 19. For reasons which now seem incomprehensible, the publication of "A Diary Without Dates" produced a flurry in wartime England and caused Miss Bagnold's dismissal from the military hospital where she was working as a V.A.D. It is true that her book … shows a certain hostility to the siste... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Christopher Morley
295 words, approx. 1 pages
With the loveliest humor and feeling, with words that are alive, fresh, simply and unwaveringly accurate, Enid Bagnold puts [the Browns of "National Velvet"] before us…. With never an overplus word, no slackening of pace, with loving magic power, she puts us inside in. We are the Browns. We are Velvet…. I do not know where you would go in recent fiction to find a family interior more superbly captured, made real; every line of dialogue true, moving, progressive, relevant to plot....
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National Velvet by Enid Bagnold | |
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