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Add MS 89161/5/7
- Record Id:
- 040-003316638
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003252088
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100033469492.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89161/5/7
- Title:
- Joan Bakewell: General Professional Correspondence (1988-2005)
- Scope & Content:
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A chronological sequence of communications. Selected correspondents only listed below.
- (1): 1988: Alan Bleasdale (2 letters, 9 Mar, 13 July); Hermione Lee (2 Oct).
- (2): 1989: Faxed letter of support, 18 January [to The Times], for Salman Rushdie (Satanic Verses controversy), from Brian Aldiss, Joan Bakewell, Malcolm Bradbury, Samuel Hynes and Hermione Lee (Booker Prize judges, 1981, the year in which the Prize was awarded to Rushdie for Midnight's Children); David Hare (20 Mar); Graham Swift (28 Sept); Eileen Atkins [October], performing in Exclusive by Jeffrey Archer; George Benjamin (2 Oct); William Rees-Mogg (6 Nov, re Dennis Potter - see Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed, p. 278); David Lodge (25 Nov).
- (3). 1990: Malcolm Williamson (4 Mar); Salman Rushdie (3 Apr).
- (4): 1998-2005: Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ['Debo'] (3 Nov 1998); Tony Blair (13 Sept 1999 - unable to attend Opening Night of London Film Festival); James Fenton (21 Jun 2002); Roland Philipps of John Murray (27 Feb 2003, with photocopy cutting about The Centre of the Bed). And letters from the following individuals regarding approval of the text of their interviews for publication in Bakewell (ed.), Belief (2005): Karen Armstrong (14 Dec 2001), John Tavener (Nov 2004), Antonia Byatt (card and letter, 3 and 8 Dec 2004) declining interview publication on copyright grounds, James Lovelock (8 Dec 2004), Timothy Radcliffe (14 Dec [?2004]), Andrew Motion (20 Dec 2004), and Minette Walters (7 Jan 2005).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003252088
036-003316283
040-003316638 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89161 : Joan Bakewell: Personal, Professional and Literary Papers
Add MS 89161/5 : Joan Bakewell: Professional Papers
Add MS 89161/5/7 : Joan Bakewell: General Professional Correspondence (1988-2005) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003252088[0005]/036-003316283[0007]/040-003316638
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89161
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1988
- End Date:
- 2005
- Date Range:
- 1988-2005
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Legal Status:
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- Names:
- Armstrong, Karen, author, b 1944
Atkins, Eileen June, actress and writer, b 1934
Benjamin, George William John, composer, b 1960
Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton, politician, b 1953
Bleasdale, Alan, writer, b 1946
Byatt, Antonia Susan, writer, b 1936
Cavendish, Deborah Vivien, née Freeman-Mitford, writer and socialite, 1920-2014
Fenton, James Martin, poet, author, journalist, b 1949
Hare, David, Knight, playwright, b 1947
Lee, Hermione, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature University of Oxford, b 1948
Lodge, David John, writer and professor, b 1935
Lovelock, James Ephraim, scientist, environmentalist, 1919-2022
Mogg, William Rees-, Baron Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewitt, journalist and newspaper editor, 1928-2012
Motion, Andrew Peter, Knight, poet, b 1952,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109322047
Potter, Dennis Christopher George, dramatist, 1935-1994
Radcliffe, Timothy, Dominican friar, priest, author, b 1945
Rushdie, Ahmed Salman, Knight, novelist and essayist, b 1947
Swift, Graham Colin, novelist, b 1949
Tavener, John Kenneth, Sir, composer, 1944-2013
Walters, Minette, crime writer, b 1949
Williamson, Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher, composer, 1931-2003