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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer. Drabble's books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Jun 1, 2024 · Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is an English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girl’s development toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood.
May 28, 2019 · Margaret Drabble’s (born 5 June 1939) novels charm and delight, but perhaps more significantly, they reward their readers with a distinctively modern woman’s narrative voice and their unusual blend of Victorian and modern structures and concerns.
Margaret Drabble is primarily known as an English novelist, but is also a critic and biographer. Her first novel, A Summer Birdcage (1963), was quickly followed by the publication of The Garrick Year (1964).
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby.
Jul 14, 2018 · Margaret Drabble is a dame of the British empire and, as she agrees from her house in Oxford, has been "part of modern life for a very long time". She was born in Sheffield in England...
Margaret Drabble became famous in the 1960s for her short novels about young women starting life, but she has grown into a much more powerful and interesting novelist through the years into the twenty-first century.
Margaret Drabble’s internationally celebrated novels include The Radiant Way, A Natural Curiosity, The Gates of Ivory, The Peppered Moth, The Seven Sisters, and The Red Queen. She is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. She lives in London, England.
Margaret Drabble has 132 books on Goodreads with 117859 ratings. Margaret Drabble’s most popular book is The Millstone.
Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at Cambridge. She was awarded a CBE in 1980. Her many novels include The Radiant Way (1987), A Natural Curiosity (1989) and The Gates of Ivory (1991), The Peppered Moth (2000) and The Seven Sisters (2002) all of which are published by Penguin.
