Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer. She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the...
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best single poem for "The Plenty of Nothing", an elegy to his wife, Jenny Diski. Patterson has written a non-fiction book about the bombing of Guernica...
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Skynner/Cleese, p. 285 Skynner/Cleese, p. 290–1 Skynner/Cleese, p. 293 Jenny Diski, The Sixties (London 2009) p. 62 Jacques Lacan, Ecrits: A Selection (London...
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Nothing Natural is the 1986 debut novel by Jenny Diski, initially published in hardback through Simon & Schuster. It follows a young woman who enters...
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251 Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (1939) v5 p. 377 and p. 399 Jenny Diski, The Sixties (2009) pp. 120–1 Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence...
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Sage, Bad Blood 2002: Michael Foss, Out of India: A Raj Childhood 2003: Jenny Diski, Stranger on a Train 2004: Bryan Magee, Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood...
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ambition to write an autobiography in dreams. According to Jenny Diski, Emily is partly based on Diski, who lived with Lessing for some years as an adolescent...
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And which doesn't preclude being funny." (Citing Sontag as quoted in Jenny Diski, "Seriously Uncool", London Review of Books 29, no. 6 (March 22, 2007)...
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Obituary: Joan Rodker, The Daily Telegraph, 23 January 2011 (online edition) Jenny Diski Obituary: Joan Rodker, The Independent, 13 January 2011 UK Campaign to...
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Bruce Chatwin T. J. Clark Tom Clark Patrick Cockburn Stefan Collini Jenny Diski Terry Eagleton William Empson Paul Farmer Penelope Fitzgerald Jerry Fodor...
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Rainforest is a 1987 novel by Jenny Diski about a young female English academic whose ambitions are to lead a sane and sensible life and to contribute...
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Jacqui Dankworth (born 1963), singer Julia Darling (1956–2005), author Jenny Diski (1947–2016), author JJ Feild (born 1978), actor Sonia Friedman (born...
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assertion." In response to Greer's statement in the book about sex tourism, Jenny Diski for the London Review of Books said, "Would it be impossibly puritanical...
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CSIC, 2014. http://libros.csic.es/product_info.php?products_id=772. Jenny Diski, "Apology for the Woman Writing", Virago Press, 2008 ISBN 9781844083855 :...
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"Remembering Elizabeth Maxwell". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 17 July 2019. Diski, Jenny (26 January 1995). "Bob and Betty". London Review of Books. 17 (2). Retrieved...
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of novelists and essayists, including Alan Bennett, John Lanchester, Jenny Diski, Blake Morrison, Alan Hollinghurst, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, Salman...
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Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age, Sourcebooks, Inc., 2009 Jenny Diski Betty Dodson Carol Gilligan Sex-positive feminism Gates, Anita (November...
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Miller, Sarah-Jane Potts, Peter Wight and John Simm 6 "Murder in Mind" Jenny Diski Robert Bierman 2 October 1994 (1994-10-02) Starring Cathryn Harrison...
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Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs and Steel Jenny Diski – Skating to Antarctica Michael Drosnin – The Bible Code Gerina Dunwich...
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2017. Kellaway, Kate (28 April 2016). "Jenny Diski obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2016. Jenny Diski, The Sixties (2009) p. 24, 97–98 Kebbel...
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of the same book Jenny Diski called the Homes for Votes scandal Porter's "biggest, stupidest and most cynical act of corruption". Diski, without justifying...
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Adam Ant, following a suicide attempt by an overdose of pills in 1976. Jenny Diski, an English writer, briefly stayed at the hospital. John Duffy, British...
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of the Swiss Confederation 1947 – Kim Darby, American actress 1947 – Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (d. 2016) 1947 – Luis Fernando Figari...
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2004, Richard Grant, Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads 2003, Jenny Diski, Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions...
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1918) 2015 – Michael J. Ingelido, American general (b. 1916) 2016 – Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (b. 1947) 2017 – Mariano Gagnon, American...
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Laing, The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise (1984) p. 98 Jenny Diski, The Sixties (2009) p. 127-9 Harold Bloom, Doris Lessing (2003) p. 230...
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Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Incorporated Knight Jenny Diski – Rainforest Jim Dodge – Not Fade Away Roddy Doyle – The Commitments...
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Regrets about Not Fighting Invasion". AP NEWS. Retrieved 22 March 2023. Jenny Diski, The Sixties (London 2009) p. 82 "World: A DOCTRINE FOR DOMINATION"....
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restaurant chain owned by Landry's Rainforest (novel), 1987 novel by Jenny Diski Rain Forest (1959), a bronze fountain/sculpture by James FitzGerald FernGully:...
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(1840–1904, England, H/F) Michael Dillon (Lobzang Jivaka, 1915–1962, R/S) Jenny Diski (1947–2016, England, S/T) Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881, England, Po/B)...
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