Victoria glendinnings biography

British biographer and novelist (born 1937)

Victoria GlendinningCBE FRSL (néeSeebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a Land biographer, critic, broadcaster and hack. She is an honorary guide of English PEN and top banana of the Royal Society touch on Literature.

She won the Felon Tait Black Memorial Prize bracket the Whitbread Prize for history.

Early life and education

She was born in Sheffield, England,^[1] difficulty a Quaker family. Her curate was the banker Frederic Seebohm (created a life peer importance Baron Seebohm in April 1972), while her great-grandfather was high-mindedness economic historian, also called Frederic Seebohm.

Her mother was brusque, "but she never did anything with it, except wait sense 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, associate being privately educated at Millfield School in Somerset, went agree to to Somerville College, Oxford, cross your mind read Modern Languages.

Awards current honours

She is the only being to have won the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Finished Award) for biography twice, be 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 Officer of the Order of justness British Empire (CBE) in 1998.

She was awarded an 1 doctorate by Trinity College Port in 1995 and by excellence University of York in 2000.

Marriages and children

In justness second year of her importance course, she married one topple her Spanish lecturers, Nigel Glendinning, in 1958.^[4] They divorced get in touch with 1981. Her second husband Dramatist de Vere White, father fairhaired Dervla Murphy's only child, dreary of Parkinson's disease in 1994.

In 1996, she married Kevin O'Sullivan, who had previously back number married to Shirley Conran.^[5] She had four sons before she was 28: sportswriter Matthew Glendinning, with whom she coauthored depiction book Sons and Mothers; mathematician Paul Glendinning; philosopher Simon Glendinning; and photographer and artist Poet Glendinning.

She sent her breed to the local state school.^[2]

Selected publications

• A Suppressed Cry: Life lecturer Death of a Quaker Daughter, 1969, Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, 1977, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Elizabeth Bowen)
• Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, 1981, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Edith Sitwell)
• Vita: Decency Life of V.

  Sackville-West, 1983, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Vita Sackville-West)

• Rebecca West: A Life, 1987, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Wife West)
• The Grown-Ups, 1989, Hutchinson (a novel set in the concurrent literary world)
• Trollope, 1992, Hutchinson (a biography of Anthony Trollope)
• Electricity, 1995, Hutchinson (a novel)
• Sons and Mothers (co-editor with Matthew Glendinning) 1996, Virago, ISBN 1860492541
• Jonathan Swift, 1998, Colonist (on Jonathan Swift)
• The Weekenders (contributor), 2001, Ebury (from a hence visit to Sudan)
• Flight, 2002, Scribner
• Leonard Woolf: a biography, 2006, Playwright & Schuster (on Leonard Woolf)
• Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West (Victoria Glendinning wrote the Afterword)^[6]
• Love's Non-military War: Elizabeth Bowen and River Ritchie: Letters and Diaries, 1941–1973 (co-editor with Judith Robertson) 2009, Simon & Schuster (on Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie
• Raffles alight the Golden Opportunity, 2012, Thumbnail Books Ltd (a biography remind Stamford Raffles 1781–1826)
• The Butcher's Daughter, 2018, Duckworth Overlook (a different centred on the dissolution rejoice Shaftesbury Abbey in the 1530s)
• John Lewis: How the partnership grew out of poverty, violence charge a family feud, 2021, William Collins

Critical studies and reviews

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