HomeGroupsTalkExploreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Margaret Drabble

Author of The Oxford Companion to English Literature

Includes the names: M Drabble, Drabble (M), ed. Drabble, Margret Drabble, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Drabble ed., DRABBLE MARGARET (ED, Ed. Margaret Drabble, Margaret. ed. DRABBLE ... (see complete list), Magaret Drabble (ed.), editor Margaret Drabble, Margaret Drabble Editor, Edited by Margaret Drabble, Margaret. Edited by. Drabble, Маргарет Дрэббл, Margaret Drabble editor & reviser, Jenny (editor) Margaret; Stringer Drabble

MembersReviewsPopularityRatingFavorited   Events   
13,679 (263,934)4,4191,444 (4.11)410
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, 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)
— biography from The Red Queen
… (more)
Series
organize | filter
Works by Margaret Drabble
The Oxford Companion to English Literature 1,712 copies, 9 reviews
The Red Queen 906 copies, 41 reviews
The Millstone 853 copies, 24 reviews
The Radiant Way 774 copies, 10 reviews
The Seven Sisters 672 copies, 22 reviews
The Peppered Moth 667 copies, 13 reviews
The Needle's Eye 417 copies, 7 reviews
The Witch of Exmoor 416 copies, 11 reviews
A Natural Curiosity 413 copies, 1 review
The Ice Age 409 copies, 3 reviews
A Summer Bird-Cage 371 copies, 8 reviews
The Waterfall 368 copies, 3 reviews
The Sea Lady 365 copies, 10 reviews
The Realms of Gold 364 copies, 4 reviews
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 364 copies, 2 reviews
The Gates of Ivory 353 copies, 7 reviews
The Dark Flood Rises 351 copies, 20 reviews
Jerusalem the Golden 342 copies, 7 reviews
The Middle Ground 316 copies, 3 reviews
The Garrick Year 311 copies, 5 reviews
The Pure Gold Baby 270 copies, 16 reviews
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (Author) 242 copies, 14 reviews
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories 210 copies, 7 reviews
A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature 149 copies, 2 reviews
Arnold Bennett: A Biography 89 copies, 1 review
Angus Wilson: A Biography 56 copies, 2 reviews
At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond 40 copies, 2 reviews
The Gifts of War 20 copies
The Forward Book of Poetry 1994 17 copies
For Queen and country: Britain in the Victorian age 15 copies
Wordsworth 12 copies
The Genius of Thomas Hardy 11 copies, 1 review
Great Poets of the 20th Century: Sylvia Plath (Foreword) 9 copies
London Consequences 5 copies
The Plays of Margaret Drabble: A Critical Edition 3 copies
The Romantic Poets: William Wordsworth 3 copies
Wordsworth's butter knife : an essay 1 copy
Loistava tilaisuus 1 copy
La Mer toujours recommencée 1 copy
Stækkede vinger 1 copy
Hassan's Tower 1 copy
New stories : an anthology 1 copy
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics 1 copy
Prize-winning literature, winners of British literary prizes since 1984. 1 copy
Twentieth Century Classics: Catalogue 1994-5 1 copy
'A Dandy Style' in The Threepenny Review, winter 2001 1 copy
Crossing the Alps 1 copy
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 copy
The Gimlet Eye (of [Margaret Drabble]) 1 copy
Drabble, Margaret Archive 1 copy
The May Anthology: The Oxford and Cambridge Short Story Anthology 1 copy
Safe as Houses 1 copy
Tornado Pratt 1 copy
organize | filter
Also by Margaret Drabble
Pride and Prejudice (Introduction, some editions) 71,777 copies, 1,258 reviews
Sense and Sensibility (Introduction, some editions) 34,167 copies, 480 reviews
Emma (Introduction, some editions) 33,761 copies, 467 reviews
Persuasion (Introduction, some editions) 25,535 copies, 483 reviews
Mansfield Park (Introduction, some editions) 20,279 copies, 338 reviews
Northanger Abbey (Introduction, some editions) 19,335 copies, 393 reviews
To the Lighthouse (Editor, some editions) 16,375 copies, 244 reviews
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Introduction, some editions) 15,512 copies, 227 reviews
Far from the Madding Crowd (Introduction, some editions) 10,223 copies, 180 reviews
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon (Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions) 1,767 copies, 31 reviews
Ann Veronica (Introduction, some editions) 449 copies, 17 reviews
Owls Do Cry (Introduction, some editions) 419 copies, 7 reviews
Women and Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (Contributor) 338 copies, 6 reviews
Stories (Introduction) 333 copies, 3 reviews
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 281 copies, 4 reviews
Cocksure (Afterword, some editions) 257 copies, 5 reviews
The Juniper Tree (Foreword, some editions) 224 copies, 7 reviews
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (Contributor) 156 copies
Poor Cow (Introduction, some editions) 142 copies, 5 reviews
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Contributor) 106 copies
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (New… (Editor) 98 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (Contributor) 91 copies
Wuthering Heights and Poems (Introduction, some editions) 89 copies
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture [cat. exp., Royal Academy of Arts, London;… (Contributor) 85 copies, 1 review
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (Contributor) 73 copies, 4 reviews
The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories (Author) 48 copies, 1 review
Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories (Contributor) 27 copies
The Undiscovered Country (Foreword, some editions) 24 copies
The Shakespeare circle : an alternative biography (Contributor) 21 copies
Slightly Foxed 59: Manhattan Moments (Contributor) 15 copies
The Bedside 'Guardian' 15: A Selection from The Guardian 1965-1966 (Contributor) 7 copies
A Day to Remember to Forget (Introduction, some editions) 3 copies, 1 review
A Love Letter to Europe: An Outpouring of Sadness and Hope (Contributor) 3 copies
Birds of Prey (Introduction) 2 copies
Members

Top members (works)

e-zReader (101), ellenandjim (88), Pages_Aplenty (82), Henbaben (80), Luis_Castrillo (80), hillaryrose7 (79), MillieHennessy (71), arjaygee (66), cctesttc1 (66), shearrob (64), BookHavenAZ (63), carrielyn825 (61), dwhodges01 (60), hiberius (60) — more

Recently added

liatkaplan (1), Ravenna2013 (1), fortunehunters1 (1), pangurb (1), Laura_J_D (1), SaltyLIghtning (1), HoboMonk (1), Klicato (1), Nipoc (1), unity78277 (1)

Legacy Libraries

C. S. Lewis (8), Barbara Pym (8), Carl Sandburg (7), Edward St. John Gorey (7), Sylvia Plath (6), Gillian Rose (6), Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (5), Leonard and Virginia Woolf (5), Leslie Scalapino (3), James Joyce (3) — 36 more, Ernest Hemingway (3), Anthony Burgess (3), USS California (Armored Cruiser No. 6) (3), Graham Greene (2), Hannah Arendt (2), William Somerset Maugham (2), Walker Percy (2), M. R. James (2), William Butler Yeats (2), Ralph Ellison (2), Robert Ranke Graves (2), Newton 'Bud' Flounders (2), Sir Walter Scott (1), Karen Blixen (1), William Gaddis (1), Louis Armstrong (1), Maria Àngels Anglada d'Abadal (1), Theodore John Kaczynski (1), Harry S Truman (1), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1), Edward Estlin Cummings (1), Eeva-Liisa Manner (1), Danilo Kiš (1), Benton MacKaye (1), Astrid Lindgren (1), Ayn Rand (1), Evelyn Waugh (1), Franz Kafka (1), International Space Station (1), Iris Murdoch (1), John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1), Helene Hanff (1), Alfred Deakin (1), George Orwell (1), George Washington Mordecai (1), Juice Leskinen (1)

Member favorites

Related tags
1001 (456) 1001 books (461) 19th century (2,598) 20th century (558) adventure (558) Austen (1,124) British (1,896) British fiction (349) British literature (1,802) classic (5,460) classic fiction (444) classic literature (761) classics (5,501) ebook (713) England (2,012) English (903) English literature (1,941) family (539) favorite (364) favorites (447) fiction (15,473) historical (437) historical fiction (556) Jane Austen (1,483) Kindle (674) literature (3,457) love (605) marriage (460) novel (2,904) own (757) read (1,557) reference (525) Regency (781) Roman (322) romance (3,174) science fiction (1,399) to-read (4,173) unread (653) Victorian (354) women (564)

Margaret Drabble has 5 past events. (show)

history
Common Knowledge
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical name
Legal name
Holroyd, Dame Margaret Drabble
Other names
Date of birth
1939-06-05
Date of death
Burial location
Gender
female
Nationality
UK
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Place of death
Cause of death
Places of residence
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Education
The Mount, York
University of Cambridge (Newnham College)
Occupations
novelist
critic
biographer
Relationships
Holroyd, Michael (husband)
Byatt, A. S. (sister)
Langdon, Helen (sister)
Swift, Joe (son)
Swift, Rebecca (1) (daughter)
Organizations
Royal Shakespeare Company (1960-1963)
Booktrust
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 2002)
Awards and 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
Agents
PFD, Drury House
Short biography
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.
Disambiguation notice

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

Member ratings

Average: (4.11)
0.5 77
1 688
1.5 107
2 2193
2.5 484
3 8933
3.5 2036
4 17661
4.5 2144
5 22725

Author pictures (2)

   

(see all 2 author pictures)

Improve this author

Combine/separate works

Author division

Margaret Drabble is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.

Includes

Margaret Drabble is composed of 19 names. You can examine and separate out names.

Combine with…

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 173,547,345 books! | Top bar: Always visible
Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc.