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191. Add MS 89161/6/33

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (background material about Cambridge academics)
Scope & Content:
Background material about academic figures associated with Cambridge, and with Newnham College in particular. Assembled by Bakewell during the course of writing her autobiography. Includes other figures of the period and some general material on the 1950s. The file comprises: Arthur Cecil Pigou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-2001
Extent:
1 file

192. Add MS 89161/6/34

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (Background material late 1950s/1960s)
Scope & Content:
Material gathered during the course of writing The Centre of the Bed (2003). W. S. Merwin (New York Times, 1995, downloaded from the internet 2001) and Ted Hughes (Dido Merwin, 'Vessel of Wrath: A Memoir of Sylvia Plath', Appendix to Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame). Dido Merwin's account has been a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968-2002
Extent:
1 file

193. Add MS 89161/6/35

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (background material about the Harry Roy Band)
Scope & Content:
Material relating to the Harry Roy Band, which played on board RMS Alcantara when Bakewell travelled with her parents to Argentina in 1938. See Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed (2003), Chapter 3. The file comprises: 10 issues of The Bugle Call Rag (Newsletter of the Harry Roy Appreciation Societ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-2001
Extent:
1 file

194. Add MS 89161/6/36

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed ('Depression')
Scope & Content:
In a file entitled 'Depression' (file title retained), a single sheet of autograph notes referring to William Styron, Darkness Visible (1990) and to Albert Camus. The remainder of the file comprises (unmarked) photocopied excerpts from Styron, Darkness Visible (Chapter 4), and Andrew Solomon, Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2001]
Extent:
1 file

195. Add MS 89161/6/37

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (material by and relating to Harold Pinter)
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, photographs (Pinter's interview on Late Night Line-Up) and various items by and concerning Harold Pinter in relation to his appearance in Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed (2003). (1). Correspondence: David Hare. Two typed letters signed (18 August and 11 October 1996). The first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969-2010
Extent:
1 file

196. Add MS 89161/6/38

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (biographical notes concerning Bakewell and Pinter, and records of conversations)
Scope & Content:
Autograph and some typed notes by Bakewell, chronicling the history of her relationship with Harold Pinter in preparation for drafting The Centre of the Bed. The notes include records of conversations with him in 1995-6 and 2001-2. (1). 'Chronology'. List of dates and events in Bakewell's and P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976-2002
Extent:
1 file

197. Add MS 89161/6/39

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (various notes)
Scope & Content:
Contents of a ring-binder, complete with subject dividers. The contents comprises a mixture of autograph notes and some background material derived from the internet. Topics include family history, childhood, school, and Cambridge. The final section of notes is headed 'My Generation' and relates ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1952-2002
Extent:
1 file

198. Add MS 89161/6/40

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (various notes)
Scope & Content:
Contents of a ring-binder. Autograph notes on a variety of topics, divided by decade (1960s-80s). Includes notes on BBC radio drama (1955-64) and 'Newsnight' (with copies of BBC internal memos derived from BBC archives).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1955-[c 2000]
Extent:
1 file

199. Add MS 89161/6/41

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (notes on Late Night Line-Up)
Scope & Content:
Contents of a ring binder concerning the BBC 2 programme Late Night Line-Up, combining autograph research notes made for Bakewell's autobiography with copies of internal BBC memoranda (obtained from the BBC archive). The file also includes records of Bakewell's earlier television work (e.g. Table...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-[c 2000]
Extent:
1 file

200. Add MS 89161/6/42

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed ('Corrections')
Scope & Content:
Contents of a ring-binder entitled 'Corrections'. The sub-divisions of the file ('Check', 'Answers' and 'Include') indicate that the material represents a final 'sweep' of the autobiography in draft. Includes two letters from Harry Guest (one of which includes his translation of lines from 'Le La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2002
Extent:
1 file