• John Rayner Heppenstall (27 July 1911 in Lockwood, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England – 23 May 1981 in Deal, Kent, England) was a British novelist, poet...
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  • Naomi Smalls Edward Heppenstall (1901–1994), Bible scholar and theologian of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Rayner Heppenstall (1911–1981), British...
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    he shared with Michael Sayers and Rayner Heppenstall. The relationship was sometimes awkward and Blair and Heppenstall even came to blows, though they remained...
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    into a flat in Kentish Town, which he shared with Michael Sayers and Rayner Heppenstall. Over this period he was working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and...
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  • pregnant and they learnt later that Orwell was sterile, as he told Rayner Heppenstall, as Eileen confided in Elizaveta Fen. Eileen joined Orwell in Spain...
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    upcoming animated film adaptation. A BBC radio version, produced by Rayner Heppenstall, was broadcast in January 1947. Orwell listened to the production...
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    "Pecksniffian". By 1933 his reputation "had touched bottom", and Rayner Heppenstall's short book of 1934, John Middleton Murry: A Study in Excellent Normality...
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    1920) ("The Door of the Lowly") A study in English is Léon Bloy by Rayner Heppenstall (Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1953). "Love does not make you weak, because...
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  • "Gollancz is of course part of the Communism-racket," Orwell wrote to Rayner Heppenstall in July 1937. Orwell had learned of Warburg's potential willingness...
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  • 1932) 1981 – Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933) 1981 – Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (b. 1911) 1981 – George Jessel, American...
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