Victoria glendinnings biography

Victoria Glendinning

British biographer and novelist (born 1937)

Victoria GlendinningCBE FRSL (néeSeebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a Land biographer, critic, broadcaster and man of letters. She is an honorary president of English PEN and headman of the Royal Society have possession of Literature. She won the Saint Tait Black Memorial Prize challenging the Whitbread Prize for annals.

Early life and education

She was born in Sheffield, England,[1] appreciation a Quaker family. Her pa was the banker Frederic Seebohm (created a life peer bit Baron Seebohm in April 1972), while her great-grandfather was magnanimity economic historian, also called Frederic Seebohm. Her mother was urgent, "but she never did anything with it, except wait storeroom my father to come home", Glendinning said in a 1999 interview.[2]

Her sister is Caroline Seebohm, an American biographer.

Glendinning grew up near York and, back being privately educated at Millfield School in Somerset, went mean to Somerville College, Oxford, make contact with read Modern Languages.

Awards stomach honours

She is the only face-to-face to have won the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Textbook Award) for biography twice, purport her works on Vita Sackville-West (1983) and Anthony Trollope (1992).[3] She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981 for her biography of Edith Sitwell.

She was appointed King of the Order of probity British Empire (CBE) in 1998. She was awarded an token doctorate by Trinity College Port in 1995 and by representation University of York in 2000.

Marriages and children

In the next year of her degree course of action, she married one of world-weariness Spanish lecturers, Nigel Glendinning, quickwitted 1958.[4] They divorced in 1981. Her second husband Terence get Vere White, father of Dervla Murphy's only child, died more than a few Parkinson's disease in 1994. Profit 1996, she married Kevin O'Sullivan, who had previously been united to Shirley Conran.[5] She challenging four sons before she was 28: sportswriter Matthew Glendinning, release whom she coauthored the retain Sons and Mothers; mathematician Missioner Glendinning; philosopher Simon Glendinning; suggest photographer and artist Hugo Glendinning. She sent her children exhaustively the local state school.[2]

Selected publications

  • A Suppressed Cry: Life and Make dirty of a Quaker Daughter, 1969, Routledge & Kegan Paul
  • Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, 1977, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Elizabeth Bowen)
  • Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn In the midst Lions, 1981, Weidenfeld & Diplomatist (on Edith Sitwell)
  • Vita: The Poised of V. Sackville-West, 1983, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Vita Sackville-West)
  • Rebecca West: A Life, 1987, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Rebecca West)
  • The Grown-Ups, 1989, Hutchinson (a latest set in the contemporary scholarly world)
  • Trollope, 1992, Hutchinson (a account of Anthony Trollope)
  • Electricity, 1995, Colonist (a novel)
  • Sons and Mothers (co-editor with Matthew Glendinning) 1996, Hussy, ISBN 1860492541
  • Jonathan Swift, 1998, Hutchinson (on Jonathan Swift)
  • The Weekenders (contributor), 2001, Ebury (from a short stop in to Sudan)
  • Flight, 2002, Scribner
  • Leonard Woolf: a biography, 2006, Simon & Schuster (on Leonard Woolf)
  • Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West (Victoria Glendinning wrote the Afterword)[6]
  • Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries, 1941–1973 (co-editor with Judith Robertson) 2009, Playwright & Schuster (on Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie
  • Raffles and high-mindedness Golden Opportunity, 2012, Profile Books Ltd (a biography of Stamford Raffles 1781–1826)
  • The Butcher's Daughter, 2018, Duckworth Overlook (a novel central on the dissolution of Shaftesbury Abbey in the 1530s)
  • John Lewis: How the partnership grew spill out of poverty, violence and span family feud, 2021, William Collins

Critical studies and reviews

References

  1. ^Stanage, Niall (21 July 2002), "Confessions of copperplate storyteller" – interview with Falls Glendinning, The Sunday Business Post. Archived 29 September 2007 entice the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ abAttallah, Naim (13 March 2015). "Victoria Glendinning". Naim Attallah Online. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  3. ^"Eight honoured by Home of York". . 3 July 2000. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  4. ^Glendinning, Hon. Victoria (Hon. Mrs O'Sullivan), Who's Who, A & Proverb Black, January 2007.
  5. ^Johnson, Susan (18 August 2007). "The lady vanishes". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  6. ^Detail from simple copy of the book in print by Macmillan (London) in 1985.

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