Margaret Drabble
Autor/a de The Red Queen
Sobre l'autor
Margaret Drabble was born on June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, England. She attended The Mount School in York and Newnham College, Cambridge University. After graduation, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford during which time she understudied for Vanessa Redgrave. She is a novelist, mostra'n més critic, and the editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Her works include A Summer Bird Cage; The Millstone, which won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in 1966; Jerusalem the Golden, which won James Tait Black Prize in 1967; and The Witch of Exmoor. She also received the E. M. Forster award and was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Fellowship in the 1960s and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Margaret Drabble
The Oxford Companion to English Literature 183 exemplars
The Oxford companion to English literature 149 exemplars
Collectible Margaret Drabble THE MIDDLE GROUND First U.S. edition 1980 Literary Fiction F/F 1 exemplars
Le Milieu de la Vie 1 exemplars
Mühlstein 1 exemplars
Wordsworth's butter knife : an essay 1 exemplars
Writer's Britain, A : landscape in literature 1 exemplars
Sığ Sularda 1 exemplars
Ther peppered Moth 1 exemplars
Hassan's Tower 1 exemplars
Loistava tilaisuus 1 exemplars
Tornado Pratt 1 exemplars
Drabble, Margaret Archive 1 exemplars
The Gimlet Eye (of [Margaret Drabble]) 1 exemplars
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 exemplars
Twentieth Century Classics: Catalogue 1994-5 1 exemplars
Crossing the Alps 1 exemplars
The Þpeppered moth 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon (1925) — Editor, algunes edicions; Introducció, algunes edicions — 1,976 exemplars
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (New York Review Books Classics) (2014) — Editor — 118 exemplars
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture [cat. exp., Royal Academy of Arts, London; 21 Jan - 09 April 2012, Guggenheim Museum,… (2012) — Col·laborador — 106 exemplars
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Col·laborador — 87 exemplars
The Bedside 'Guardian' 15: A Selection from The Guardian 1965-1966 (1966) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Holroyd, Dame Margaret Drabble
- Data de naixement
- 1939-06-05
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educació
- The Mount, York
University of Cambridge (Newnham College) - Professions
- novelist
critic
biographer - Relacions
- Holroyd, Michael (husband)
Byatt, A. S. (sister)
Langdon, Helen (sister)
Swift, Joe (son)
Swift, Rebecca (1) (daughter) - Organitzacions
- Royal Shakespeare Company (1960-1963)
Booktrust
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 2002) - Premis i honors
- Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 1980)
DLitt (hc ∙ University of Cambridge ∙ 2006)
E. M. Forster Award (1973)
Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander ∙ 2008)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature - Agent
- PFD, Drury House
- Biografia breu
- MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.
Drabble has famously been engaged in a long-running feud with her novelist sister, A.S. Byatt, over the alleged appropriation of a family tea-set in one of her novels. The pair seldom see each other and each does not read the books of the other.
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BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE MAY 2015 - MARGARET DRABBLE AND MARTIN AMIS a 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (juny 2015)
Ressenyes
I read to page 50 and it just wasn't holding my attention, so I tossed it.
Just not for me. Rumination on aging, as reflected on by the primary and a number of secondary characters. I found the characters and their context simply didn't engage me in a meaningful way. Nothing particularly insightful, instructive or entertaining about the act of aging.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 65
- També de
- 39
- Membres
- 12,785
- Popularitat
- #1,835
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 272
- ISBN
- 454
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 41
Each part of the book is interesting in its own right: the story of Phyllis and Margaret, and their family; the discursive discussions on jigsaw history, and other pursuits that seem to tick some of the same boxes - mosaic making for instance. But it feels a lot longer than it should have been, as though Drabble hasn't been able to bear to edit out any nugget from her research.
I was determined to reach the end, and was relieved when I finally did.… (més)