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Margaret Drabble

Dame Margaret Drabble, (born June 5, 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England), 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.

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In addition to her novels, Drabble wrote several books on the general subject of literature, as well as journal articles and screenplays. The relatively few short stories she wrote in the 20th century were collected in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman (2011). She also edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985). Drabble was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980 and advanced to Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 2008.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Drabble

Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd DBE FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic.

Drabble was born in Sheffield, the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie (née Bloor). Her older sister is the novelist and critic Dame Antonia Byatt; the youngest sister is the art historian Helen Langdon, and their brother, Richard Drabble, is a QC.

After attending the Quaker boarding-school Mount School at York, where her mother was employed, Drabble received a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1960, at one point serving as an understudy for Vanessa Redgrave, before leaving to pursue a career in literary studies and writing.

read more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Drabble

“When nothing is sure, 

everything is possible.” 

 Margaret Drabble

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