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This message has been sent through the MASSOBS discussion list. Remember, clicking 'reply' sends your message to the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- hello all - there was a pretty thorough history of Nella, complete with quotes from her family and reference to the Mass Obs archive at Sussex in, I think, yesterday's Daily Mail - under the headline The real story behind Housewife 49. There's also a plug for Mr Broad's book. You can look the story up online. I'd pass on the link, but my computer keeps crashing every time I click on it (a problem with my computer, not the Mail web site!) Maggie ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: 22 May 2007 17:16 +0100 From: bob niblett <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MASSOBS] Victoria Wood and 'Housewife 49' This message has been sent through the MASSOBS discussion list. Remember, clicking 'reply' sends your message to the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Glad I started a good discussion.. was just thinking that Mrs Last would have been so pleased at our confirmation of her literary abilities Bob Dorothy Sheridan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: This message has been sent through the MASSOBS discussion list. Remember, clicking 'reply' sends your message to the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- No - I wonder if there's more to it. She was very cross that the second ed of Nella Last's War was published with a line attributed to her on the front cover when she had already refused to write a new intro for Profile Books. Maybe they shouldn't have gone ahead without her permission but it was only a line. I heard from Profile that she was very cross about that and she may feel that the Archive was implicated somehow - though we weren't. There was also a suggestions that she might be filmed in the Archive at Sussex for the South Bank Show on her - with Melvyn Bragg. The South Bank show actually phoned me to start setting it up; then they changed it to ask if I could bring some of the original diary to London to be filmed but then nothing further was said. So who knows what was going on there? Maybe nothing at all. The other important thing to remember is that hers was a fictional version and it is very clear that she drew on her creative talents to make something new of the diary for TV. Maybe she wanted people to appreciate her specific contribution? Much of the programme was her imagination (esp. the MO office in London which was not in the diary though I did talk to her on the phone about that). She was perfectly nice to me while we were waiting in the wings at the Brighton Dome on the night of 11 May before her performance in the literary bit of the Brighton festival but perhaps very nervous. But there are always weird errors and misunderstandings with projects and the media - and I should add that I think Richard Broad (editor of book) got a nice message from her when he wrote and congratulated her. I have (blind) copied this to him in case he fancies joining in with his own observations. I don't think he is on jiscmail. Better get back to work........ Dorothy --On 22 May 2007 07:51 -0400 David Allan wrote: > This message has been sent through the MASSOBS discussion list. Remember, > clicking 'reply' sends your message to the list. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > I think part of her subdued response may have been her surprise at > receiving the Best Actress award for what was an adequate but not exactly > earth shattering performance rather than any reluctance to acknowledge > the source material. > David > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- To leave this list email [log in to unmask] > Alternatively, send the following command to [log in to unmask] > leave massobs -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- To leave this list email [log in to unmask] Alternatively, send the following command to [log in to unmask] leave massobs -- --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- To leave this list email [log in to unmask] Alternatively, send the following command to [log in to unmask] leave massobs -- ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- Maggie Clune Press Officer, University of Sussex Sussex House, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH Tel. 01273 678209 Fax 01273 877456 Email [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave this list email [log in to unmask] Alternatively, send the following command to [log in to unmask] leave massobs --