Drabble, Margaret
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Drabble, Margaret (1939– ), novelist, born in Sheffield, educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her early novels deal primarily with the dilemma of educated young women caught in the conflicting claims of maternity, sexuality, and intellectual and economic aspiration.
A Summer Birdcage (1963) was followed by
The Garrick Year (1964),
The Millstone (1966),
Jerusalem the Golden (1968),
The Waterfall (1969),
The Needle's Eye (1972),
The Realms of Gold (1975),
The Ice Age (1977), and
The Middle Ground (1980). She produced a trilogy of novels—
The Radiant Way (1987),
A Natural Curiosity (1989), and
The Gates of Ivory (1991)—which follows the fortunes of three women friends through the social and political changes in Britain in the 1980s. Her later novels have a broader canvas, a more ironic relationship with traditional narration, and a wider interest in documenting social change. Recent novels include
The Witch of Exmoor (1996), a mordant family chronicle inspired by a premise borrowed from John Rawls,
The Peppered Moth (2001), and
The Seven Sisters (2002). Her other works include
A Writer's Britain (1979) and a biography of Angus
Wilson (1995). A. S.
Byatt is her sister, and she is married to M.
Holroyd.
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Margaret Drabble: The Red Queen.(Book review)
Magazine article from: International Fiction Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Margaret Drabble The Red Queen Toronto: McClelland...Red Queen, the sixteenth novel by Margaret Drabble, marks a postmodernist departure...she is known to friends--just as Margaret Drabble is known as "Maggie"--is at work...
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Margaret Drabble and the `Bad Time'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/17/1992; ; 700+ words
; The Gates of Ivory By Margaret Drabble. Viking. $22. In this new novel Margaret Drabble completes the trilogy begun...Gates of Ivory reminds us that Margaret Drabble remains one of our most important...
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Margaret Drabble takes off the 'veil of fiction' ; Her memoir-of-sorts excavates her childhood, albeit selectively
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/12/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Merkin International Herald Tribune 09-12-2009 Margaret Drabble takes off the 'veil of fiction' ; Her memoir...overcast Saturday afternoon in England in mid-July, Margaret Drabble, recently turned 70, leads the way into the living...
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Writer removes a 'veil of fiction' ; Margaret Drabble's book explains her life and how a choice shapes destiny
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/12/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...removes a 'veil of fiction' ; Margaret Drabble's book explains her life and...afternoon in England in mid-July, Margaret Drabble, recently turned 70, leads...afternoon in England in mid-July, Margaret Drabble, recently turned 70, leads...
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MEMOIR Jane Shilling watches Margaret Drabble take a selection of disparate pieces and fit them together to compose a life The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws By Margaret Drabble ATLANTIC, pounds 18.99, 350 pp
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/19/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Nothing to Be Frightened Of. For Margaret Drabble it is jigsaws that provide the...This book is not a memoir,' Drabble explains, 'nor is it a history...of recollection. 'Jigsaws,' Drabble writes, 'are a useful antidote...
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Remembrance of puzzles past ; Margaret Drabble weaves memoir into history of games
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/4/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...distinguished 46-year career, Margaret Drabble has written 17 novels and two literary...didn't work out like that." Drabble's husband, biographer Michael...mood-enhancing activities, Drabble plunges into jigsaw puzzle assembly...
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Margaret Drabble's sands of time
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 10/2/2006; 700+ words
; Margaret Drabble, one of our foremost grandes dames...novel. Sheena Hastings reports. MARGARET Drabble photographs rather dourly. In repose...books. But really, when meeting Margaret Drabble, there are more interesting subjects...
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Margaret Drabble The Peppered Moth.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: International Fiction Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...34.99 The Peppered Moth, Margaret Drabble's latest publication, is a novel...blood for ink" (367), to which Drabble adds: "Maybe I should have tried...I have written this instead." Drabble is very frank in her afterword...
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Margaret Drabble; Resolutely Herself
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/20/2009; 592 words
; ...of story that is undeniably "Margaret Drabble." In it, an ordinary woman...book was an instant success. Drabble was 24 years old. Last year...like a headstrong woman in a Margaret Drabble novel. -- Marie Arana
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`The Peppered Moth,' by Margaret Drabble; Harcourt.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 5/2/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...have too much going on in it. Margaret Drabble's new novel is a saga of three...s a therapeutic exercise: As Drabble tells us in the afterword, "I...In "The Peppered Moth," Drabble portrays her mother as Bessie Bawtry...
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Drabble, Margaret
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
DRABBLE, Margaret Nationality: British. Born: Sheffield...Book Trust, 1986. * Bibliography: Margaret Drabble: An Annotated Bibliography by Joan...Tulsa, Oklahoma. Critical Studies: Margaret Drabble: Puritanism and Permissiveness by...
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Margaret Drabble
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Margaret Drabble 1939-, English novelist, b. Sheffield, Yorkshire. Drabble's realistic vision of an England split between...1966) and Arnold Bennett (1974). Increasingly Drabble's focus has moved from society as a whole to the...
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Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of
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Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of, see Cavendish, Margaret .
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Oliphant, Margaret (M.O.W.)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Oliphant, Margaret (M.O.W.), née Wilson (1828–97), a prolific Scots writer, she published Passages in the Life of Mrs Margaret Maitland (1849), a tale of Scotland; Caleb Field (1851); and...
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‘William and Margaret’
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‘William and Margaret’, a ballad by Mallet , published 1724 in...Dealer , in Percy's Reliques it appears as ‘Margaret's Ghost’. Margaret's ‘grimly ghost’ visits her...
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