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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

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Works by Margaret Drabble
The Oxford Companion to English Literature 1,644 copies, 9 reviews
The Red Queen 861 copies, 39 reviews
The Millstone 815 copies, 24 reviews
The Radiant Way 752 copies, 9 reviews
The Seven Sisters 648 copies, 21 reviews
The Peppered Moth 643 copies, 11 reviews
The Needle's Eye 402 copies, 7 reviews
A Natural Curiosity 401 copies, 1 review
The Witch of Exmoor 398 copies, 11 reviews
The Ice Age 394 copies, 3 reviews
The Waterfall 360 copies, 3 reviews
The Realms of Gold 354 copies, 4 reviews
The Sea Lady 354 copies, 10 reviews
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 354 copies, 2 reviews
A Summer Bird-Cage 353 copies, 7 reviews
The Gates of Ivory 337 copies, 6 reviews
Jerusalem the Golden 331 copies, 6 reviews
The Dark Flood Rises 313 copies, 19 reviews
The Middle Ground 307 copies, 3 reviews
The Garrick Year 306 copies, 5 reviews
The Pure Gold Baby 250 copies, 14 reviews
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (Author) 234 copies, 11 reviews
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories 199 copies, 7 reviews
A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature 139 copies, 2 reviews
Arnold Bennett: A Biography 83 copies, 1 review
Angus Wilson: A Biography 55 copies, 2 reviews
At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond 33 copies, 1 review
The Gifts of War 18 copies
The Forward Book of Poetry 1994 17 copies
For Queen and country: Britain in the Victorian age 13 copies
Wordsworth 12 copies
The Genius of Thomas Hardy 12 copies
Great Poets of the 20th Century: Sylvia Plath (Foreword) 9 copies
The Book of Sheffield (Reading the City) 5 copies, 1 review
London Consequences 4 copies
The Romantic Poets: William Wordsworth 3 copies
The Plays of Margaret Drabble: A Critical Edition 2 copies
La Mer toujours recommencée 1 copy
The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6th Edition 1 copy
Loistava tilaisuus 1 copy
Wordsworth's butter knife : an essay 1 copy
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics 1 copy
'A Dandy Style' in The Threepenny Review, winter 2001 1 copy
Drabble, Margaret Archive 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
Twentieth Century Classics: Catalogue 1994-5 1 copy
Prize-winning literature, winners of British literary prizes since 1984. 1 copy
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 copy
Tornado Pratt 1 copy
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Also by Margaret Drabble
Pride and Prejudice (Introduction, some editions) 67,527 copies, 1,206 reviews
Mansfield Park (Introduction, some editions) 19,101 copies, 315 reviews
To the Lighthouse (Editor, some editions) 15,474 copies, 238 reviews
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Introduction, some editions) 14,426 copies, 214 reviews
Far from the Madding Crowd (Introduction, some editions) 9,561 copies, 169 reviews
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon (Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions) 1,675 copies, 30 reviews
Ann Veronica (Introduction, some editions) 424 copies, 17 reviews
Owls Do Cry (Introduction, some editions) 392 copies, 7 reviews
Women and Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (Contributor) 334 copies, 6 reviews
Stories (Introduction) 316 copies, 3 reviews
Cocksure (Afterword, some editions) 249 copies, 5 reviews
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 243 copies, 4 reviews
The Juniper Tree (Foreword, some editions) 198 copies, 8 reviews
Erotica : Women's writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (Contributor) 154 copies
Poor Cow (Introduction, some editions) 129 copies, 5 reviews
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Holroyd, Dame Margaret Drabble
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Date of birth
1939-06-05
Date of death
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Gender
female
Nationality
UK
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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 ( [1980])
DLitt ( [2006])
E. M. Forster Award (1973)
Order of the British Empire ( [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.
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