Margaret Drabble and Mary Gordon

Two women, novelists and mothers, talk together in a warm, humorous and highly unusual discussion about the ways mothers and children are portrayed both in their own work and by other writers from Jane Austen to Sylvia Plath.

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producer

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Duration

00:44:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1984

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

017480

Language

English

Subject categories

Literature → Drabble, Margaret, 1939-

Literature → English literature

Literature → Gordon, Mary

Literature → Women authors

People → Drabble, Margaret, 1939-

People → Gordon, Mary

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Sound

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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1984

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