Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977)
Autor/a de The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Sélection du Reader's Digest
Obres de Cecil Woodham-Smith
Balaclava, La carica dei 600 1 exemplars
Lady in chief: The story of Florence Nightingale 1 exemplars
Study Guide: The Charge of the Light Brigade 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Reader's Digest Great Biographies in Large Type: No Minor Chords / Florence Nightingale (1991) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Farewell to the King • The Thirteenth Moon • The Three Daughters of Madame Liang… (1971) 1 exemplars
Vermist...; Wil jij zeven kinderen?; Florence Nightingale; Als de avondwinde bloeit — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume V : The Reason Why - Cecil Woodham-Smith, Mr Hobbs' Holiday - Edward Streeter,… — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
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- Nom normalitzat
- Woodham-Smith, Cecil
- Nom oficial
- Woodham-Smith, Cecil Blanche
- Altres noms
- Fitzgerald, Cecil Blanche (birth name)
Gordon, Janet (pseudonym) - Data de naixement
- 1896-04-29
- Data de defunció
- 1977-03-16
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Tenby, Wales, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
France - Educació
- St Hilda's College, University of Oxford (BA|1917)
- Professions
- historian
romance novelist - Premis i honors
- Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1960)
A.C. Benson Medal (1969)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1950) - Biografia breu
- Cecil Blanche FitzGerald was born in Tenby, Wales, to an Irish family. She graduated from Oxford University in 1917 and then went to work as a typist and copywriter for an advertising firm in London. In 1928 she married George Woodham-Smith, a solicitor. She began her literary career in her forties with potboiler novels published under the pseudonym Janet Gordon.She then moved on to serious works of history and biography. She produced four critically-acclaimed and popular books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era: Florence Nightingale, 1820–1910 (1950), The Reason Why (1953), The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–1849 (1962), and Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times (1972). In 1960, she was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and in 1969 she received the A.C. Benson Medal for her contributions to British literature.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 9
- També de
- 8
- Membres
- 2,467
- Popularitat
- #10,393
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 35
- ISBN
- 64
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 1
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