Evadne price biography of albert

  • Evadne Price (28 August 1888 – 17 April 1985), probably born Eva Grace Price, was an Australian-British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality.
  • Evadne Price tells the story of how she came to write Not So Quiet Her agent told her that a new publisher Albert E. Marriott wanted someone to write a satire.
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    Mervyn Johns

    Welsh actor (1899–1992)

    David Mervyn Johns (18 February 1899 – 6 September 1992) was a Welsh stage, film and television actor who became a fixture of British films during the Second World War. Johns appeared extensively on screen and stage with over 100 credits between 1923 and 1979.

    He made his theatrical debut while on tour of the British dominions in 1923. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with honours in 1924, he appeared in a succession of diverse roles in the West End and Bristol. He made his screen debut with Lady in Danger in 1934 and appeared in several supporting roles in the 1930s before becoming a leading man in the 1940s and 50s. In his most critically acclaimed period, he became an indelible part of British wartime cinema with starring roles in Saloon Bar (1940), The Next of Kin (1942), Went the Day Well? (1942), The Halfway House (1944), Twilight Hour (1945), and Dead of Night (1945).

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    A paper given at the Marginalised Mainstream conference, at the Senate House, University of London, November 2014.

    This paper fryst vatten about a book that has been highly acclaimed for its realism in depicting women at war, but today I’m not really going to be discussing its representation of war, or of women. Instead inom want to look at it in the context of its author’s life, and consider some of the issues that it raises about authenticity, about originality, and about the effects of pastiche and authorial disguise.

    Not So Quiet… by Helen Zenna Smith was first published in 1930 bygd the new publishing firm of Albert E. Marriott. It was rediscovered bygd Jane Marcus and republished in bygd the Feminist Press in 1989, and later bygd Virago. It is about women doing the arduous, dangerous and sometimes demeaning work of driving ambulances on the Western Front.
    Its first paragraph sets the book’s tone of physical immediacy. It plunges us straight into the women’s situation:

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    Just Jane 1928 John HamiltonDiary of a Red-Haired Girl 1932 Meet Jane 1930 Albert E. MarriotThe Haunted Light 1933 Enter Jane 1932 NewnesStrip Girl! 1934 Jane the Fourth 1937 Robert HaleProbationer! 1934 Jane the Sleuth 1939 Robert HaleSociety Girl! 1935 Jane the Unlucky 1939 Robert HaleRed for Danger 1936 Jane the Popular 1939 Robert HaleGlamour Girl 1937 Jane the Patient 1940 Robert HaleThe Wrong Mrs Sylvester 1930 Jane Gets Busy 1940 Robert HaleEscpae to Marriage 1951 Jane at War 1947 Robert HaleThe Dishonoured Wife 1951  Jane and Co. 1985 MacmillanMy Pretty Sister 1952  Her Stolen Life 1954  What the Heart Says 1956  The Love Trap 1958  My Platonic Wife 1950's  Air Hostess in Love 1962 

    AS HELEN ZENNA SMITH

      Not so Quiet. pub UK
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