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Works by Margaret Drabble - The Oxford Companion to English Literature 1,508 copies, 9 reviews
- The Red Queen 797 copies, 37 reviews
- The Millstone 757 copies, 21 reviews
- The Radiant Way 692 copies, 7 reviews
- The Seven Sisters 601 copies, 20 reviews
- The Peppered Moth 599 copies, 10 reviews
- The Needle's Eye 376 copies, 7 reviews
- A Natural Curiosity 366 copies, 1 review
- The Ice Age 361 copies, 2 reviews
- The Witch of Exmoor 359 copies, 10 reviews
- The Sea Lady 335 copies, 9 reviews
- The Realms of Gold 330 copies, 4 reviews
- Waterfall 326 copies, 2 reviews
- A Summer Bird-Cage 324 copies, 6 reviews
- The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 324 copies, 2 reviews
- The Gates of Ivory 310 copies, 6 reviews
- Jerusalem the Golden 307 copies, 5 reviews
- The Middle Ground 287 copies, 3 reviews
- The Garrick Year 279 copies, 3 reviews
- The Dark Flood Rises 227 copies, 16 reviews
- The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (Author) 212 copies, 11 reviews
- The Pure Gold Baby 207 copies, 13 reviews
- A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories 167 copies, 6 reviews
- A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature 117 copies, 2 reviews
- Arnold Bennett: A Biography 79 copies, 1 review
- Angus Wilson: A Biography 47 copies, 1 review
- The Forward Book of Poetry 1994 17 copies
- The Gifts of War (Penguin Mini Modern Classics) 16 copies
- For Queen and country: Britain in the Victorian age 12 copies
- The Genius of Thomas Hardy 10 copies
- Wordsworth 10 copies
- Pride and Prejudice (Introduction, some editions) 59,609 copies, 1,082 reviews
- Mansfield Park (Introduction, some editions) 16,971 copies, 281 reviews
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Introduction, some editions) 11,618 copies, 167 reviews
- Far from the Madding Crowd (Introduction, some editions) 8,258 copies, 145 reviews
- Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon (Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions) 1,478 copies, 26 reviews
- Ann Veronica (Introduction, some editions) 352 copies, 11 reviews
- Owls Do Cry (Introduction, some editions) 346 copies, 6 reviews
- Women and Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (Contributor) 314 copies, 6 reviews
- Stories (Introduction) 289 copies, 2 reviews
- Cocksure (Afterword, some editions) 223 copies, 4 reviews
- Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 216 copies, 4 reviews
- The Juniper Tree (Foreword, some editions) 126 copies, 7 reviews
- Poor Cow (Introduction, some editions) 121 copies, 4 reviews
- The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Contributor) 96 copies
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Margaret Drabble has 5 past events. (show) Margaret Drabble and Helen Dunmore Event location: East Stage Margaret Drabble Event location: East Stage  Margaret Drabble Margaret Drabble is a consummate chronicler of London, which she knows ‘as thoroughly as any novelist has ever known any city’, according to Joyce Carol Oates. Her insightful, affecting novels about the inner lives of conflicted women as they navigate the change-filled terrain of the 1960s onward (including ambition and motherhood), have been much loved and celebrated. Her eighteenth novel, The Pure Gold Baby, explores single motherhood and disability, through the life of anthropologist Jess, who has an affair with a professor that results in ‘pure gold baby’ Anna, a special needs child who will need Jess’s care for the rest of her life, altering its course forever in complex ways.
The Australian declares Drabble – a former editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature – ‘at the height of her game’ in this ‘adroit’ novel, one that has been compared to her 1965 classic The Millstone.
The Wheeler Centre presents two exciting events featuring Margaret Drabble – one in partnership with the Geelong Regional Library Corporation and Geelong Performing Arts Centre, where Ms Drabble will appear in conversation with local arts identity Kaz Paton, and a second, a morning tea chez nous. Tiffin is included in the ticket price, and those present will have a unique opportunity to share a bite and a cuppa with the great dame of literature. (rodneyvc)… (more) Margaret Drabble Margaret Drabble is a consummate chronicler of London, which she knows ‘as thoroughly as any novelist has ever known any city’, according to Joyce Carol Oates. Her insightful, affecting novels about the inner lives of conflicted women as they navigate the change-filled terrain of the 1960s onward (including ambition and motherhood), have been much loved and celebrated. Her eighteenth novel, The Pure Gold Baby, explores single motherhood and disability, through the life of anthropologist Jess, who has an affair with a professor that results in ‘pure gold baby’ Anna, a special needs child who will need Jess’s care for the rest of her life, altering its course forever in complex ways.
The Australian declares Drabble – a former editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature – ‘at the height of her game’ in this ‘adroit’ novel, one that has been compared to her 1965 classic The Millstone.
The Wheeler Centre presents two exciting events featuring Margaret Drabble – one in partnership with the Geelong Regional Library Corporation and Geelong Performing Arts Centre, where Ms Drabble will appear in conversation with local arts identity Kaz Paton, and a second, a morning tea chez nous. Tiffin is included in the ticket price, and those present will have a unique opportunity to share a bite and a cuppa with the great dame of literature. (rodneyvc)… (more) Event location: Geelong Performing Arts Centre, 50 Little Malop Street Geelong Victoria 3220 Life-Patterns Anne Chisholm discusses Frances Partridge: The Biography.; Margaret Drabble discusses The Pattern in the Carpet. Tickets £10 Chaired by Giles Waterfield What is the creative urge that compels some writers to publish memoirs and diaries, and what makes some of these books masterpieces of English literature? Frances Partridge, a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century. Her biographer,Anne Chisholm, reveals the spaces between the words. Renowned author Margaret Drabble has written a very original memoir, The Pattern in the Carpet, which pieces together the part that jigsaw puzzles play in her life.Anne Chisholm has written lives of Nancy Cunard and Rumer Godden. Margaret Drabble's most recent novel is The Sea Lady; she is also a biographer and critic. Giles Waterfield, a novelist and art historian, is the Chair of The Charleston Trust. (DeadGoodBooks)… (more)
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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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