![]() In later years she compiled and edited The Virago Book of Women and the Great War (1998) and Votes For Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes (2000), which was reissued in 2015 as Suffragettes to coincide with the feature film starring Meryl Streep. In 1986 she won the Elizabeth Goudge Trophy for Kessie, the first of the series. ![]() The Peterloo Massacre (1969), The Tolpuddle Martyrs (1972) and Mr and Mrs Gladstone (1977) were popular and well received, and there followed a trilogy of novels about the first world war and the suffragettes. ![]() Two children’s books, The Man With the Glove (1964)and The House on the Cliffs (1968), and an adult novel, A Time to Die (1966), followed, as well as illustrated history books and a romantic novel, but her most satisfying work came in writing well-researched social history books for non-academic readers. ![]() When “resting”, she worked as press officer to Bill Haley and Burl Ives during their mid-50s UK tours.Ī Little Big Business (1963-65) marked the end of Joyce’s acting career: her aim was always to be at the top of whatever tree she was climbing and she felt that she had probably reached her optimum rung in that field. She had parts in series of the 1950s and 60s including Dixon of Dock Green and Z Cars, and the comedy series A Little Big Business, with David Kossoff and Francis Matthews. Weekly and twice-weekly rep followed, Joyce crisscrossing the country by train on Sundays, after which she established herself on television, taking the name Joyce Marlow. ![]()
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