have been burned as a witch if she had lived two or three hundred years ago. She gives the curious feeling of being charged with power which can find no ordinary outlet." She was involved in 1946 in protracted litigation with MGM over what the corporation perceived as unfairly negative reviews of their films. This contributed to her losing a job at the BBC, but her eventual legal costs of £8,000 were paid from the proceeds of a fundraising appeal made by the Critics' Circle. Robertson was a contestant on the BBC panel game My Word! from 1957 to 1961, partnering Frank Muir. Bibliography Further reading ODNB entry: . Subscription required. Who Was Who entry: . Subscription required. Photograph of portrait of E. Arnot Robertson (1932): . Retrieved 3 March 2015. References 1903 births 1961 suicides English film critics English women novelists Writers from London People educated at Sherborne Girls 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English novelists British women film critics People from Holmwood 1961 deaths