Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble, DBE ( born June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire ) is a British writer and literary critic.
She went to a Quaker boarding school in York and completed an English degree. Subsequently, she was lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge and actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company, before she started her literary work.
In addition to a series of novels she wrote mainly short stories and some dramas. Special interest they had in the writer Arnold Bennett, of which they wrote a biography. One of her works are women-specific issues.
Drabble is married to Michael Holroyd and lives in London and Somerset. She is the sister of A. S. Byatt.
Works (selection)
- A Summer Bird - Cage, 1963 ( German " Summer Bird ", 1988)
- The Millstone 1965 (Eng. " The Millstone ", 1987)
- Jerusalem the Golden, 1967 (Eng. " Jerusalem. Golden City", 1988)
- The Realms of Gold, 1975 ( German " gold under the sand ", 1978)
- The Ice Age, 1977
- The Middle Ground, 1980 (Eng. " Portrait of a capable", 1982)
- The Radiant Way, 1987 (Eng. " The elite after the feast ", 1988)
- A Natural Curiosity, 1989 (Eng. " The desire for knowledge ", 1990)
- The Gates of Ivory, 1991 (Eng. " The gates of ivory ", 1993)
- The Witch of Exmoor, 1996 (Eng. " The Witch of Exmoor ", 1998)
- The Seven Sisters, 2002
- The Red Queen, 2004
- The Sea Lady, 2006
- A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman, 2011