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Margaret Drabble

Author of The Oxford Companion to English Literature

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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)
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature 1,796 copies, 9 reviews
The Red Queen 924 copies, 41 reviews
The Millstone 904 copies, 25 reviews
The Radiant Way 805 copies, 12 reviews
The Peppered Moth 705 copies, 14 reviews
The Seven Sisters 688 copies, 22 reviews
The Needle's Eye 440 copies, 7 reviews
The Witch of Exmoor 439 copies, 11 reviews
A Natural Curiosity 433 copies, 1 review
The Ice Age 423 copies, 3 reviews
A Summer Bird-Cage 396 copies, 9 reviews
The Waterfall 385 copies, 3 reviews
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 383 copies, 2 reviews
The Dark Flood Rises 382 copies, 20 reviews
The Realms of Gold 378 copies, 4 reviews
The Sea Lady 371 copies, 10 reviews
The Gates of Ivory 366 copies, 7 reviews
Jerusalem the Golden 358 copies, 8 reviews
The Middle Ground 337 copies, 3 reviews
The Garrick Year 328 copies, 6 reviews
The Pure Gold Baby 287 copies, 17 reviews
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws 251 copies, 14 reviews
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories 224 copies, 7 reviews
A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature 154 copies, 3 reviews
Arnold Bennett: A Biography 89 copies, 1 review
Angus Wilson: A Biography 62 copies, 2 reviews
At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond 61 copies, 2 reviews
The Gifts of War 22 copies
The Forward Book of Poetry 1994 19 copies
For Queen and country: Britain in the Victorian age 16 copies
Wordsworth 11 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 Romantic Poets: William Wordsworth 3 copies
The Plays of Margaret Drabble: A Critical Edition 3 copies
Prize-winning literature, winners of British literary prizes since 1984. 1 copy
Stækkede vinger 1 copy
Hassan's Tower 1 copy
Sığ Sularda 1 copy
Sobe a Maré Negra 1 copy
Dizionario Oxford della letteratura inglese 1 copy
Wordsworth's butter knife : an essay 1 copy
New stories : an anthology 1 copy
Drabble, Margaret Archive 1 copy
Loistava tilaisuus 1 copy
La Mer toujours recommencée 1 copy
Tornado Pratt 1 copy
'A Dandy Style' in The Threepenny Review, winter 2001 1 copy
The May Anthology: The Oxford and Cambridge Short Story Anthology 1 copy
Safe as Houses 1 copy
The Gimlet Eye (of [Margaret Drabble]) 1 copy
Crossing the Alps 1 copy
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 copy
Twentieth Century Classics: Catalogue 1994-5 1 copy
Le Milieu de la Vie 1 copy
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Pride and Prejudice (Introduction, some editions) 77,616 copies, 1,337 reviews
Sense and Sensibility (Introduction, some editions) 36,809 copies, 506 reviews
Emma (Introduction, some editions) 36,569 copies, 495 reviews
Persuasion (Introduction, some editions) 27,657 copies, 522 reviews
Mansfield Park (Introduction, some editions) 21,775 copies, 352 reviews
Northanger Abbey (Introduction, some editions) 20,882 copies, 406 reviews
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Introduction, some editions) 17,416 copies, 238 reviews
Middlemarch (Introduction, some editions) 17,114 copies, 324 reviews
To the Lighthouse (Editor, some editions) 16,971 copies, 257 reviews
Far from the Madding Crowd (Introduction, some editions) 10,992 copies, 187 reviews
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon (Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions) 1,904 copies, 33 reviews
Ann Veronica (Introduction, some editions) 472 copies, 17 reviews
Owls Do Cry (Introduction, some editions) 445 copies, 7 reviews
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (Contributor) 358 copies, 7 reviews
Stories (Introduction) 352 copies, 4 reviews
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 291 copies, 4 reviews
Cocksure (Afterword, some editions) 268 copies, 5 reviews
The Juniper Tree (Foreword, some editions) 255 copies, 7 reviews
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (Contributor) 167 copies
Poor Cow (Introduction, some editions) 147 copies, 5 reviews
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Contributor) 114 copies
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (New… (Editor) 114 copies, 2 reviews
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture [cat. exp., Royal Academy of Arts, London;… (Contributor) 100 copies, 1 review
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (Contributor) 97 copies
Wuthering Heights and Poems (Introduction, some editions) 96 copies
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (Contributor) 86 copies, 4 reviews
The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories (Author) 49 copies, 1 review
Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories (Contributor) 27 copies
The Shakespeare circle : an alternative biography (Contributor) 26 copies
The Undiscovered Country (Foreword, some editions) 25 copies
Slightly Foxed 71: Jocelin's Folly (Contributor) 19 copies
Slightly Foxed 59: Manhattan Moments (Contributor) 15 copies
The Bedside 'Guardian' 15: A Selection from The Guardian 1965-1966 (Contributor) 7 copies
Collision: Stories From the Science of CERN (Contributor) 6 copies
A Love Letter to Europe: An Outpouring of Sadness and Hope (Contributor) 5 copies
A Day to Remember to Forget (Introduction, some editions) 3 copies, 1 review
Birds of Prey (Introduction) 2 copies
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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)
England, UK
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)
Agents
PFD, Drury House
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
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.
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