Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977)
Author of The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849
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Works by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Balaclava, La carica dei 600 1 copy
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Reader's Digest Great Biographies in Large Type: No Minor Chords / Florence Nightingale (1991) — Contributor — 3 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Farewell to the King • The Thirteenth Moon • The Three Daughters of Madame Liang… (1971) 1 copy
Vermist...; Wil jij zeven kinderen?; Florence Nightingale; Als de avondwinde bloeit — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Woodham-Smith, Cecil
- Legal name
- Woodham-Smith, Cecil Blanche
- Other names
- Fitzgerald, Cecil Blanche (birth name)
Gordon, Janet (pseudonym) - Birthdate
- 1896-04-29
- Date of death
- 1977-03-16
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Tenby, Wales, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
France - Education
- St Hilda's College, University of Oxford (BA|1917)
- Occupations
- historian
romance novelist - Awards and honors
- Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1960)
A.C. Benson Medal (1969)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1950) - Short biography
- Cecil Blanche FitzGerald was born in Tenby, Wales, to an Irish family. She graduated from Oxford University in 1917 and then went to work as a typist and copywriter for an advertising firm in London. In 1928 she married George Woodham-Smith, a solicitor. She began her literary career in her forties with potboiler novels published under the pseudonym Janet Gordon.She then moved on to serious works of history and biography. She produced four critically-acclaimed and popular books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era: Florence Nightingale, 1820–1910 (1950), The Reason Why (1953), The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–1849 (1962), and Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times (1972). In 1960, she was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and in 1969 she received the A.C. Benson Medal for her contributions to British literature.
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The author attributes the extravagant behavior of one or two characters to their being of Irish and Italian heritage, yet she does not attribute the behavior of the two mental deviants about whom the story is told to their being British.… (more)