The Correspondent by Virginia Evans — life between the lines
One of my favourite episodes in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series of dramatic monologues concerns a voracious letter-writer. The main character in A Lady of Letters, Irene Ruddock , hides her loneliness behind a stream of letters to…
One of my favourite episodes in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series of dramatic monologues concerns a voracious letter-writer. The main character in A Lady of Letters, Irene Ruddock , hides her loneliness behind a stream of letters to newspapers, grieving relatives of a woman she barely knew, The Queen, crematorium officials and the police. Sybil Van Antwerp, the central figure in Virginia Evans's…
