Margaret Drabble

Women writers and the lure of deep England

The country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann were studies in class, conflict and creativity.

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A small patch of London encouraged high thoughts and hard work in the unconventional female writers who made it…

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When I was at university I passionately wanted to be an actor, and for some years struggled to find…

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I felt I was entering the adult world.

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Ernaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.

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Jaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.

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It took me a long time to get to grips with Perec, but I'm glad I did.

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It is hard to characterise Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere – it is a discursive, rambling, global volume.

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The Story of the Lost Child is the final instalment in a literary phenomenon. But what does its elusive author really believe?

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