Miranda Seymour

Miranda Jane Seymour ( born August 8, 1948) is a British literary scholar, author and biographer. She has a series of biographies of female characters written, including about the British author Mary Shelley and the French racing driver Hellé Nice.

Life

At the age of two years, her parents moved to Thrumpton Hall, the family seat in Nottinghamshire. Thrumpton Hall is a Jacobean house on the south bank of the River Trent in the village Thrumpton. Miranda Seymour was educated there by her father George Fitzroy Seymour, who had a particular fondness for motorcycles and classic cars. This preference is also reflected in her biography of the French racing driver Hellé Nice that the English title The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor -Racing Legend carries.

Miranda Seymour is the author of several children's books, novels, and a series of biographies, which was well received by critics. She has also written for a number of respected journals and magazines. These include the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Economist. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and has taught for some years at Nottingham Trent University. Miranda Seymour is also a member of the Royal Society of Arts.

In 1972 she married the novelist and historian Andrew Sinclair, with whom she had a son. Her second husband was Anthony Gottlieb, then editor of The Economist and author of a history of Western philosophy. The marriage ended in 2003. She is married his third wife in 2006 with the Boston Ted Lynch. Miranda Seymour now lives in London and Thrumpton Hall. Thrumpton Hall is the subject of her book published in 2007 In My Father's House: Elegy for in Obsessive Love, for which they with the Pen Ackerley Prize was awarded in 2008. Currently she is working on a biography of Virginia Cherrill, a movie star of the 1930s.

Work (selection)

  • In My Father's House (2007)
  • The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor -Racing Legend ( 2004)
  • Brief History of Thyme (2002)
  • Mary Shelley (2001)
  • The Summer of '39 (1998)
  • Robert Graves: Life on the Edge ( 1995)
  • Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale ( 1993)
  • The Reluctant Devil ( 1994)
  • A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915 (1988 )
  • Carrying On: a novel ( 1984)
  • Madonna of the Iceland: Stories from Corfu ( 1980)
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