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Margaret Forster

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Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic. [1]

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Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates, (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.

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Algarve

The Algarve (from الغرب "the west") is the southernmost region of continental Portugal.

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Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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Arts council

An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts; mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing arts events.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Caitlin Davies

Caitlin Davies (born 6 March 1964) is an English author, journalist and teacher.

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Caldbeck

Caldbeck is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale, Cumbria, England.

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Carlisle, Cumbria

Carlisle (or from Cumbric: Caer Luel Cathair Luail) is the county town of Cumbria.

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Carmen Callil

Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE (born 15 July 1938) is an Australian publisher, writer and critic.

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Caroline Norton

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an English social reformer and author active in the early and mid-nineteenth century.

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Carr's

Carr's is the name of foodstuff and agricultural brands historically derived from founder Jonathan Dodgson Carr, but now owned and marketed by more than one separate company.

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Charlotte Rampling

Tessa Charlotte Rampling, (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian.

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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin (born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933) is an English author and journalist, known for her biographies on Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.

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Dartmouth Park

Dartmouth Park is a district of north London in the London Borough of Camden, on the slope of the hill that rises up to Highgate from Kentish Town.

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Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Diary of an Ordinary Woman

Diary of an Ordinary Woman is a novel by Margaret Forster, framed as an "edited" diary of a fictional woman who lives through most of the major events of the 20th century, covering the years 1914 to 1995.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography

The Dictionary of Literary Biography is a specialist biographical dictionary dedicated to literature.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett,; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography by Margaret Forster, first published in 1988, is a biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which won the Heinemann Award in 1989.

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Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School (EGA), a medium-sized comprehensive secondary school for girls in Islington, London, England, is rated as 'Outstanding' by OFSTED in its most recent inspection report.

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Emily Davies

Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist and suffragist, and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access.

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869May 14, 1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer.

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Fanny Stevenson

Frances (Fanny) Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (10 March 1840 – 18 February 1914) was the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson and mother of Isobel, Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, and Hervey Stewart Osbourne.

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Fawcett Society

The Fawcett Society is an organisation in the United Kingdom that campaigns for women's rights.

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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale, (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

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Frances Osborne

Frances Victoria Osborne (née Howell; born 18 February 1969) is a British author.

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Georgy (musical)

Georgy is a musical with a book by Tom Mankiewicz, lyrics by Carole Bayer, and music by George Fischoff.

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Georgy Girl

Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster.

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Georgy Girl (song)

"Georgy Girl" is a song by the Australian folk music group the Seekers.

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Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York.

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Gwen John

Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career.

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Hampstead

Hampstead, commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Heinemann Award

The W. H. Heinemann Award is an award established by William Heinemann who bequeathed funds to the Royal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, given from 1945 to 2003.

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Hunter Davies

Edward Hunter Davies, OBE (born 7 January 1936) is a British author, journalist and broadcaster.

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Islington

Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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James Mason

James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor.

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Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge

Janet Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, PC (3 November 1904 – 16 November 1988), known as Jennie Lee, was a Scottish politician.

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Josephine Butler

Josephine Elizabeth Butler (Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era.

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Kathleen Jones

Kathleen Jones (born 1946) is an English poet and biographer.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard (or simply Evening Standard) is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London.

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Loweswater

Loweswater is one of the smaller lakes in the English Lake District.

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Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English and American actress.

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Margaret Sanger

Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.

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Mary Moffat Livingstone

Mary Livingstone (née Moffat; 12 April 1821 – 27 April 1862) was the wife of the Scottish Congregationalist missionary David Livingstone.

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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PEN/Ackerley Prize

PEN Ackerley Prize (or, J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography) is awarded annually by English PEN for a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year.

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Peter Nichols

Peter Richard Nichols CBE, FRSL (born 31 July 1927) is an English playwright, screenwriter, director and journalist.

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Raffles, Cumbria

Raffles or the Raffles Estate is a suburb of Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom.

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Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott (born 1964) is a British writer, currently professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Sue Lawley

Susan Lawley, OBE (born 14 July 1946) is an English broadcaster.

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Swinging Sixties

Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the UK during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London as its epicentre.

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal.

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The Seekers

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962.

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Valerie Grove

Valerie Grove (née Smith, born 11 May 1946 in South Shields) is a British journalist and author, who for many years worked as a feature writer, interviewer and columnist for The Times newspaper.

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Victorian Studies

Victorian Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Indiana University Press.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist and author.

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Writers' Guild of Great Britain

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Forster

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