Roden, Claudia
Claudia Roden is a food writer with a special interest in the history and cultural background of food. Born and raised in Egypt, she specialises in the cuisines of the Middle East and North Africa, the Mediterranean and in Jewish food. Her books are said to have influenced what we eat in Britain today and […]
Riddell, Chris
Chris Riddell was born in 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa, where his father was a “liberal Anglican vicar” and was opposed to the system of apartheid. The family returned to England when Chris was one year old, where he spent the rest of his childhood with his sister and three brothers, who now live […]
Rees-Jones, Deryn
Deryn has written extensively about twentieth-century women’s poetry, and her landmark anthology Modern Women Poets was published in tandem with her critical work Consorting with Angels. She has received various awards for her own poetry, including an Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley award. Burying the Wren and Erato were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Paula […]
Rice, Emma
Emma is the proud Artistic Director of her company, Wise Children, and an internationally respected theatre-maker and director. For Wise Children, Emma has adapted and directed the productions The Buddha of Suburbia, Blue Beard, The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales, Wuthering Heights, Bagdad Cafe, Romantics Anonymous, Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers and Angela Carter’s Wise Children. […]
Rendell (Baroness Rendell of Babergh), Ruth
Ricks, Sir Christopher
Rees, Joan
Rose, Kenneth
Ridley, Jasper
Jasper Godwin Ridley (25 May 1920 – 1 July 2004) was a British writer, known for historical biographies. He received the 1970 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography Lord Palmerston. Born in West Hoathly, Sussex, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. He trained and practiced as a barrister, before […]
Rogers, Jane
Raitt, Alan
Alan Raitt was one of the most distinguished post-war British scholars of 19th-century French literature, particularly noted for his work on Flaubert and on Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. A Special Lecturer in French Literature at Oxford University from 1976, and then from 1979 Reader, he was appointed to a personal chair in 1992. The novel with […]
Rose, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Rose is a feminist thinker whose books include: Sexuality in the Field of Vision and The Last Resistance (both Verso Radical Thinkers), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, Women in Dark Times, Mothers – an essay on love and cruelty, the novel Albertine, and most recently, On Violence and On Violence Against Women. She is co-director of […]