Margaret Forster (1938–2016)
Autor(a) de Lady's Maid
About the Author
Margaret Forster was born in Carlisle, England on May 25, 1938. She read history at Somerville College, Oxford. Before her writing career took off, she was a teacher at a girls' school. She is the author of over 40 books of fiction and non-fiction. Her novel include Mother, Can You Hear Me?, Have mostrar mais the Men Had Enough?, Lady's Maid, Private Papers, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Over, Isa and May, The Unknown Bridesmaid, and How to Measure a Cow. Georgy Girl, published in 1965, was made into a film starring Lynn Redgrave in 1966. She has written several memoirs including Hidden Lives, Precious Lives, and My Life in Houses. Her biography Elizabeth Barrett Browning won the Heinemann award and her 1993 biography of Daphne du Maurier won the Fawcett book prize and was filmed for the BBC as Daphne in 2007. She also wrote a history of feminism entitled Significant Sisters in 1984. She died of cancer on February 8, 2016 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Margaret Forster
The Bogeyman 6 exemplares
Dames' Delight 2 exemplares
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1938-05-25
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-02-08
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
Loweswater, Cumbria, UK - Educação
- Carlisle and County High School for Girls
Oxford University (Somerville College) - Ocupações
- novelist
memoirist
biographer - Relações
- Davies, Hunter (husband)
Davies, Caitlin (daughter) - Organizações
- Royal Society of Literature
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fawcett Society Book Prize (1994)
Heinemann Award (1988)
Membros
Críticas
Rich desserts and captain's thin : a family and… por Margaret Forster
A splendid evocation of the biscuit manufacturing Carr clan of Carlisle. Hard work, thrift and uplift were the messages and, in relating the story of God-fearing enterprise, Forster manages to illuminate a great deal of bygone social history.
Margaret Forster analyse avec une finesse impressionnante les contradictions des relations familiales et affectives.
This was a reading group suggestion and I wasn't particularly thrilled. It wasn't as bad as I expected. It's a long book and I did have to commit myself to 100 pages a day to get through it. I found that when I picked it up, I could read the 100 pages and quite enjoy it but once put down, I would not be enthused to pick it back up. It definately becomes far too long towards the end and I was just waiting for it to be over. But it does have its interesting side - in its portrait of Elizabeth Barret Browning, its description of a servant's life - always at the mercy of those who called themselves poor but weren't really. The description of depression at the end is particularly good. So for a book that is the kind that I normally avoid, it was OK.… (mais)
Dit boek gaf ik aan ma en zij vond het heel goed. Na haar overlijden heb ik het voor de tweede keer gelezen en er opnieuw van genoten. Het verhaal van een aantal vrouwen met een klein schilderij als rode draad.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 39
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 4,282
- Popularidade
- #5,869
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 130
- ISBN
- 278
- Línguas
- 11
- Marcado como favorito
- 16
- Pedras de toque
- 219