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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939) [1] is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer. Drabble's books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
May 28, 2019 · Margaret Drabble’s (born 5 June 1939) novels charm and delight, but perhaps more significantly, they reward their readers with a distinctively modern woman’s narrative voice and their unusual blend of Victorian and modern structures and concerns.
Margaret Drabble, English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girl’s development toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood. Learn more about Drabble’s life and work, including her notable books.
Margaret Drabble is primarily known as an English novelist, but is also a critic and biographer. Her first novel, A Summer Birdcage (1963), was quickly followed by the publication of The Garrick Year (1964).
She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
May 11, 2018 · A respected editor and writer, Margaret Drabble made her reputation in the early 1960s as the preeminent novelist of the modern woman. She is best known for her novels that chronicle the negative effects of dramatic changes in contemporary British society on the lives of well-educated women.
Oct 3, 2024 · Margaret Drabble. Writer and critic Dame Margaret Drabble reveals the formative influences on her career. 43 mins
Margaret Drabble was born in 1939 in Sheffield, in the North of England. She went to Cambridge University where she studied English Literature. When she left university, she married an actor...
Jul 14, 2018 · Margaret Drabble is a dame of the British empire and, as she agrees from her house in Oxford, has been "part of modern life for a very long time". She was born in Sheffield in England...
Since she was in her twenties, Margaret Drabble has been one of Britain’s most important writers. She is best known for her fiction. Beginning in 1963, her novels have been popular and...
