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Tresidder, Megan. ‘The really awfully funny life of Beryl’, Guardian, 8 April 1995.
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Vincent, Sally. ‘Beryl Bainbridge: lady with the dangerous typewriter’, Cosmopolitan, March 1979.
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AUDIO-VISUAL SOURCES
Booker Prize interview with George Yeatman, 1973.
Omnibus: Words Fail Me, BBC2, 1979.
Reader’s Almanac, interview with Walter James Miller, WNYC, 1979.
Motives, interview with Anthony Clare, BBC2, 1983.
Terry Waite Takes a Different View, interview with Terry Waite, BBC 2 North West, 1986.
In the Same Boat, interview with Kay Avila, Thames, May 1987.
Face to Face with Tony Wilson, Granada, 1989.
Book Talk, interview with Jill Kitson, ABC, 1996.
In the Psychiatrist’s Chair, interview with Anthony Clare, BBC Radio 4, 1999.
Beryl’s Last Year, documentary by Charlie Russell, BBC2, 2005.
SELECTED ACADEMIC CRITICISM
Anderson, Patricia. ‘The novel as autobiography: the life and career of Beryl Bainbridge’, Quadrant, vol. 53, no. 10, October 2009.
Carr, Helen. ‘Beryl Bainbridge: unhomely moments’, in Writing Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2007.
Grubisic, Brett Josef. Understanding Beryl Bainbridge. University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
Johnson, Diane. ‘Young Adolf goes to Beryl Bainbridge’s England’, in Terrorists and Novelists, Knopf, 1982, pp. 97–104.
Lassner, Phyllis. ‘Fiction as historical critique: the retrospective World War II novels of Maureen Duffy and Beryl Bainbridge’, Phoebe: A Feminist Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 12–26.
Marsh, Huw. ‘Life’s nasty habit: time, death and intertextuality in Beryl Bainbridge’s An Awfully Big Adventure’, Critical Engagements, 2.1 (Spring/Summer 2008), pp. 85–110.
— ‘From the “other side”: mimicry and feminist rewriting in the novels of Beryl Bainbridge’, in Identity and Form in 20th and 21st Century Literature, ed. Ana María Sánchez-Arce. Routledge, 2013.
— Beryl Bainbridge: Writers and their Work. Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2014.
Richter, Virginia. ‘Grey Gothic: the novels of Beryl Bainbridge’, Anglistik und Englischunterrichr, 60 (1997), pp. 159–71.
Valverde, Gloria. A textual study of Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘Another Part of the Wood’ and ‘A Weekend with Claude’, PhD Thesis, University of Texas, 1985.
Wennö, Elisabeth. Ironic Formula in the Novels of Beryl Bainbridge. Göteborg, 1993.
— ‘Encased in ice: antarctic heroism in Beryl Bainbridge’s The Birthday Boys’, in Cold Matters, eds. Heidi Hansson and Cathrine Norberg. Northern Studies Monographs, 2009.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to Beryl’s children, Aaron, Jo and Rudi, for the support and encouragement they have given me throughout the writing process, as well as for allowing me to consult and quote from the papers in their possession. Many people were kind enough to let me copy documents they had relating to Beryl, but particular thanks go to Belinda Davies for access to Austin Davies’s personal papers; Tom Haycraft for access to his archive of Duckworth material; Chloë Buck for her extensive collection of Beryl’s letters to her mother, Judith Shackleton; Harold Retler for the letters Beryl wrote to him during the late 1960s; Andrew Hewson and Ed Wilson at Johnson & Alcock for access to the agency’s files on Beryl dating back to the mid-1980s; and to Alan Sharp’s Estate for permission to quote from his unpublished correspondence.
My thanks also go to all those who agreed to talk to me about their memories of Beryl or who helped to clarify information about her life and aspects of her work, including: Hilary Abbott, Helen Alexander, Paul Bailey, David Bainbridge, Trevor Baines, Robin Baird-Smith, Anita Barry, Nicole Bartos, Mark Bostridge, Melvyn Bragg, Alan Brookes, Chloë Buck, Janina Cebertowicz, Graham Clark, Margaret Clark, Charlotte Clement, David Coe, Peter Conradi, Rex Cowan, Zelide Cowan, Belinda Davies, Esme Davies, Florence Davies, John F. Dewey, Maggie Dickie, Ken Doggett, Maureen Duffy, Gwynne Dyer, August Ford, Inigo Ford, Luther Ford, Jason Fordham, Max Fordham, Lady Lucy French, Fanchon Frohlich, June Furlong, Maggie Gilby, Mark Gleeson, Chris Goldie, Nick Green, Ruth Green, Brenda Haddon, Sara Haddon, Alex Hamilton, David Harsent, Ronald Harwood, Arthur Haycraft, Richard Haycraft, William Haycraft, Sarah Haynes, Andrew Hewson, Susan Hitch, Sue Hodso
n, Harry Hoff, Michael Holroyd, Stephanie Howard, Philip Hughes, Psiche Hughes, Rebecca Hussey, Margaret Jones, Penny Jones, Mike Laurence, Parvin Laurence, Larry Levine, Anna Lowther Harris, Stoddard Martin, Irene Matthews, Derwent May, Miranda May, Yolanta May, Viki McDonnell, Glenys McDougall, Roger McGough, Brian McGuinness, Luke McKernan, Don McKinlay, Sheenagh McKinlay, Helenka Medlik, Nicola Medlik, Bruce Moffat, Rachel Mohin, Rod Murray, Stephanie Nettell, Harvey Nicol, Sarah O’Reilley, Angela Ovenston, Margaret Parsons, Vicky de Pass, Stephen Peppiatt, Tristram Powell, Ken Ratcliffe, Harold Retler, Robin Riley, Bertie Russell, Charlie Russell, Natalie Russell, Nina Saville, Philip Saville, Prunella Scales, Alan Sharp, Margaret Sharp, Francesca Sheppard, Gail Stanhope, Ursula Starr, Dinah Swain, Mary Thorne, Lili Todes, Jeremy Trafford, Jack Treagus, Gertrud Watson, A. N. Wilson.
Research on this biography was greatly facilitated by a grant from the Authors’ Foundation.
I would like to thank Robin Baird-Smith and Jamie Birkett at Bloomsbury Continuum for their editorial and technical assistance, Mark Bostridge for his editorial advice and input, and Richard Mason for his careful copy-editing of the final text.
INDEX
Ackerley, Mrs Harold, here–here, here, here, here, here, here
Ackroyd, Peter, here
Ackroyd, Timothy, here
Adult Fun (film), here–here
Agutter, Jenny, here
Alderman, Terry, here, here
Amobi, Johnny, here
Andrews, Julie, here
Antony, Sister Mary, here
Armstrong, Ronald, here, here, here
Awfully Big Adventure, An (film), here
Ayckbourn, Alan, here
Bailey, Paul, here, here
Bainbridge, Beryl (as actress)
Adult Fun (film), here–here
Beaver Coat, The here, here, here
Biggles on Mystery Island (television), here, here
Brothers Castiglioni, The here, here
Cabin for Crusoe, A (radio), here
Caesar and Cleopatra, here
Case of the Frightened Lady, The here
Circle of Chalk, The here
Coronation Street (television), here
Dangerous Corner, here
Dear Brutus, here
Doomwatch (television), here
Family Solicitor (television), here, here
For Better for Worse, here
Hobson’s Choice, here
Hollow Crown, The here
Jeannie, here, here
Johnny Belinda, here, here, here
King of the Castle, here, here
Knight Errant Limited (television), here
Letter, The here
Little Women, here
Nothing but the Truth, here
Queen’s Husband, The here
Richard II, here
Rookery Nook, here, here, here, here
Sun and I, The here, here, here
Tobias and the Angel, here
Triumph and Tragedy of Dr Johnson, The here–here
Wagon for Five (radio), here
Worm’s Eye View, here
Young Madame Conti, here, here, here
Bainbridge, Beryl (as artist), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
A quiet evening at Eaves Farm or Hope does not spring eternal, here
Bath, The here
Captain Dalhousie preparing to mount, here
Claud and Sheba, here
Colin Haycraft, Dr Samuel Johnson and me, learning Latin in Gloucester Crescent, here
Did you think I would leave you dying when there’s room on my horse for two, here
Down on the Farm, here
Dr Samuel Johnson in Albert St with his cat hodge, here
Napoleon and friend retreating from Ramsbottom, here
Napoleon viewing the field, here
Napoleon’s campaign in Ramsbottom, here
Portrait of Judith Gleeson, here
Portrait of Tad and Mark Gleeson, here
Portrait of Washington Harold, here
Rustic Pleasures, here
Self-portrait, here
Sinking, The here
There is no hope for the future . . . I’m off to the pub, here
Three Friends, here
Wedding group in field with hen, here
Bainbridge, Beryl (as author)
According to Queeney, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; original title of, here
‘All along the seashore’ (poem), here
‘Another Friday’ (radio play), here
Another Part of the Wood, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Another Part of the Wood (revised ed.), here–here, here
Awfully Big Adventure, An here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here, here
Awfully Big Adventure, An (play), here
Birthday Boys, The here, here–here, here, here, here; original title, here
Blue Skies From Now On (television play), here, here
Bottle Factory Outing, The here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘Ceedy Man and the Bellringers’ (short story), here
‘Ceedy Man and the Christening’ (short story), here
‘Ceedy Man and the Mysterious Visitor’ (short story), here
‘Dear Brutus’, here, here, here, here
Dressmaker, The here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
English Journey, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Every Man for Himself, here, here, here
Filthy Lucre, here, here, here
Forever England, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘Fragments 1951–53’, here, here, here, here
Girl in the Polka Dot Dress, The here, here, here, here, here, here
Harriet Said, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here
‘Harriet Said’ (screenplay), here–here
‘He’s the Captain of the Team’, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘I cannot bear for you to make a child’ (poem), here
‘I liked to wander’ (poem), here
‘I Remember Peace Day (poem), here
‘I Was Doctor Wheeler’s Intended’, here
‘If I should come across you yet once more’ (poem), here
‘I’m Not Criticising . . . I’m Remembering’ (television play), here, here, here, here
Injury Time, here–here, here, here, here
‘Injury Time’ (play), here
‘It’s only words isn’t it’ (poem), here
Journal of Bridget Hitler, The (with Philip Saville, television play), here
‘Kiss Me Hardy’, here
‘Laird’s Afternoon, The’ (short story), here
‘Last Battle, The’, here
‘Liverpool’, here–here
‘Living with Ourselves’ (provisional title of Forever England), here
‘Magic Carpet, The’ (short story), here
‘Man who Blew Away, The’ (short story), here
Master Georgie, here, here–here, here
‘Medvale Bombshell, The’, here–here
Mum & Mr Armitage, here
‘My Little Room’ (poem), here
‘My Song is Done’, here, here, here
‘O My Darling’ (television play), here
‘Oh when you walk’ (poem), here
‘Put into words the sense of loss when you walk’ (poem), here
Quiet Life, A here, here, here, here, here, here
Sweet William, here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here
Sweet William (screenplay), here
‘Summer of the Tsar, The’, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘There are sheep in the field’ (poem), here
‘They took a stick . . .
’ (poem), here
Tiptoe Through the Tulips (television play), here, here, here, here
‘To Lyn’ (poem), here
‘Tragedy of Andrew Ledwhistle, The’, here, here, here
Triumph and Tragedy of Dr Johnson, The (with Richard Ingrams), here–here
‘Us Versus Them’ (with Lynda South), here, here–here
‘Walk in the Park, A’ (short story), here, here
Warrior’s Return, The (television play), here
Watson’s Apology, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Weekend with Claud, A here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here
Weekend with Claude, A (revised ed.), here–here, here, here
‘William at the Harvest Festival’, here, here
Winter Garden, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘You Could Talk to Someone’ (short story), here–here
Young Adolf, here, here, here–here, here, here, here
Bainbridge, Beryl (life, in chronological order): family background, here–here; birth, here; early childhood, here–here; relationship with brother, here; childhood sex abuse, here–here; Girls College Formby, here; drama lessons with Mrs Ackerley, here–here, here, here, here, here; Merchant Taylors’ School, here, here–here, here; nicknamed Basher at school, here; meets Lynda South, here; letters to Lynda South, here; relationship with Harry Franz, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here; assaulted in pine woods, here; accused of writing dirty poem, here; leaves Merchant Taylors’ School, here; Arts Educational School, here–here, here–here; attends Paul Robeson concert, here; joins Liverpool Playhouse, here; meets Ken Ratcliffe, here; meets Austin Davies, here; first sexual experience, here; Austin breaks up with, here–here; leaves Playhouse, here; bedsit in Redcliffe Road, here, here; sexual assault on, here, here–here, here; flat in Parliament Hill, here, here, here, here; trip to Paris with George Greggs, here–here; engagement to Austin Davies, here–here, here; marriage to Austin Davies, here–here; moves to here Catharine Street, here; birth of son Aaron, here; holiday in Spain, here–here; moves to here Huskisson Street, here; birth of daughter Johanna, here; first suicide attempt, here, here; divorce proceedings, here, here, here, here; affair with Mick Green, here–here; self-administered abortion, here–here; death of father, here; affair with Edward L. Lohman, here–here, here; end of affair with Mick Green, here–here; second suicide attempt, here–here; moves to here Arkwright Road, here; engagement to Ken Doggett, here; affair with Alan Sharp, here–here, here–here; holiday in Greece with Alan Sharp, here–here; birth of daughter Rudi, here; trip to Germany with Alan Sharp, here; stays at Coed Nant Gain, here, here, here; sees psychotherapist, here; moves to here Albert Street, here; affair with Harold Retler, here–here; begins affair with Don McKinlay, here; trip across America with Harold Retler, here–here; at Eaves Farm with Don McKinlay, here, here–here; works at Belloni’s wine warehouse, here; mother-in-law shooting incident, here–here; death of mother, here–here; Guardian Fiction Prize, here; affair with Clive de Pass, here–here, here–here; Writers on Tour, here; falls in love with Michael Holroyd, here; trip to Israel, here, here, here–here; affair with Colin Haycraft, here–here; trip to Russia, here, here–here, here; meets Alan Sharp in Los Angeles, here; rents flat in Parkway, here; breaks into Lambeth Cemetery, here; meets J. B. Priestley, here; row with Colin Haycraft over money, here–here; borrows money to pay tax bill, here; column for Evening Standard, here; Latin lessons with Colin Haycraft, here, here; issue of house as guarantee for Duckworth loan, here–here; dropped by Evening Standard, here; in Poland with Anna Haycaft, here–here; death of Colin Haycraft, here–here; persuaded to stay at Duckworth by Robin Baird-Smith, here-here; ‘Chick Lit’ controversy, here; launch of Duckworth Literary Entertainments, here; Anna Haycraft’s attack on, here–here; DBE, here; David Cohen Prize, here; car accident, here; death of Margaret Hewson, here; death of Anna Haycraft, here–here; British Library purchases archive, here, here, here; refers to Austin’s affair with Anna Haycraft in interview, here; death, here–here; burial in Highgate Cemetery, here; posthumous Booker award, here-here