Bridget Boland


Bridget Boland was a British screenwriter, playwright and novelist.

Life

Bridget Boland was born in London on 13 March 1913 to Irish politician John Pius Boland and Eileen Querin Boland.
Boland was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton and at Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics, and economics, graduating B.A. in 1935. In 1937 she became a film writer. From 1941 to 1946 she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, producing plays for the troops to boost morale from 1943 to 1946.
Boland reflected on her life and work in 1987:

Works

Selected filmography

  • Laugh It Off
  • Gaslight
  • Freedom Radio
  • He Found a Star
  • This England
  • Prelude to Fame
  • The Fake
  • The Prisoner
  • War and Peace
  • ''Anne of the Thousand Days''

    Plays

  • The Arabian Nights, produced 1948
  • Cockpit, produced 1948; featured in Plays of the Year 1, 1949; filmed as The Lost People
  • The Damascus Blade, produced 1950
  • The Return, produced 1952 as Journey to Earth and 1953 as The Return
  • The Prisoner, produced 1954; featured in Plays of the Year 10, 1954
  • Gordon, produced 1961; featured in Plays of the Year 25, 1962
  • The Zodiac in the Establishment, produced 1963
  • A Juan by Degrees, produced 1965
  • Time Out of Mind, produced 1970

    Novels

  • The Wild Geese, 1938
  • Portrait of a Lady in Love, 1942
  • Caterina, 1975

    Other

  • Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners, 1976
  • Gardener's Magic and Other Old Wives' Lore, 1977
  • At My Mother's Knee, 1978
  • The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement, 1983. Abridgement of the 6-volume edition edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne