Margaret Drabble
Author of The Red Queen
About the Author
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, show more 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) show less
Series
Works by Margaret Drabble
The Oxford Companion to English Literature 183 copies
The Oxford companion to English literature 149 copies
Le Milieu de la Vie 1 copy
Mühlstein 1 copy
Sığ Sularda 1 copy
Ther peppered Moth 1 copy
Hassan's Tower 1 copy
Loistava tilaisuus 1 copy
Tornado Pratt 1 copy
Drabble, Margaret Archive 1 copy
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 copy
Crossing the Alps 1 copy
The Þpeppered moth 1 copy
Associated Works
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon (1925) — Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions — 1,976 copies
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (New York Review Books Classics) (2014) — Editor — 117 copies
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture [cat. exp., Royal Academy of Arts, London; 21 Jan - 09 April 2012, Guggenheim Museum,… (2012) — Contributor — 106 copies
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- Legal name
- Holroyd, Dame Margaret Drabble
- Birthdate
- 1939-06-05
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- 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 - Agent
- 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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BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE MAY 2015 - MARGARET DRABBLE AND MARTIN AMIS in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (June 2015)
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- Works
- 65
- Also by
- 39
- Members
- 12,783
- Popularity
- #1,835
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 272
- ISBNs
- 454
- Languages
- 16
- Favorited
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Each part of the book is interesting in its own right: the story of Phyllis and Margaret, and their family; the discursive discussions on jigsaw history, and other pursuits that seem to tick some of the same boxes - mosaic making for instance. But it feels a lot longer than it should have been, as though Drabble hasn't been able to bear to edit out any nugget from her research.
I was determined to reach the end, and was relieved when I finally did.… (more)