Claire Delavenay (1933-06-20) 20 June 1933 (age 90) London, England
Occupation
Author, journalist
Education
Hitchin Girls' School; Dartington Hall School
Alma mater
Newnham College, Cambridge
Notable works
The Invisible Woman: The story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990): Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002)
Spouse
Nicholas Tomalin
(m. 1955; died 1973)
Michael Frayn
(m. 1993)
Children
5
Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June 1933) is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.
ClaireTomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June 1933) is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel...
Leeds: The Theatre Retrieved 17 December 2013 ClaireTomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, pp. 37, 72. ClaireTomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, p. 75. Philip H...
various London newspapers. He married fellow Cambridge graduate Claire Delavenay (ClaireTomalin) in 1955 and they had three daughters and two sons. In spite...
Susanna; and Jenny, a television producer. Frayn and his second wife, ClaireTomalin, a biographer and literary journalist, live in Petersham, London. 1966:...
surname include: ClaireTomalin (born 1933), English author and journalist Doug Tomalin, (1914–1998), English diver Elisabeth Tomalin (1912–2012), British...
Invisible Woman, was an adaptation of the book of the same name by ClaireTomalin, about the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan...
Davis 1998, p. 23. Callow 2009, p. 48 Tomalin 1992, p. 7 Tomalin 1992, p. 76 Patten 2001, pp. 16–18. Tomalin, Claire (2011). Charles Dickens: A Life. Penguin...
Kingsley Amis described her as "morally detestable". Other critics, like ClaireTomalin, point out that she is a complex personality, perceptive yet given to...
regarded as an obvious inspiration for the character of George Wickham by ClaireTomalin, who cites Henry and Wickham's inability to settle on a career or a...
Fanny's limited morality had much to commend it. Austen biographer ClaireTomalin (1997) argues that Fanny rises to her moment of heroism when she rejects...
recent general study, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, is by ClaireTomalin. Tomalin's book won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year award, the judges...
the peak of his poetic achievement". In a 2007 biography on Hardy, ClaireTomalin argues that Hardy became a truly great English poet after the death...
Life. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. ISBN 978-0-231-12184-2. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Rev. ed. 1974. New York:...
allegory of the Christian concept of redemption. Dickens's biographer, ClaireTomalin, sees the conversion of Scrooge as carrying the Christian message that...
Biography (Thames & Hudson, 1961) Michael Slater, Charles Dickens (Yale University Press, 2009) ClaireTomalin, Charles Dickens. A Life (Viking, 2011)...
p. 29. ISBN 9781840225594. ClaireTomalin, Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man (Penguin, 2007) pp. 30, 36. Tomalin, Claire (2007). Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn...
early work. It is unlike any of Austen's other works. Austen biographer ClaireTomalin describes the novella's heroine as a sexual predator who uses her intelligence...
back-to-back for later transmission, and appeared on ITVX during 2023. ClaireTomalin, Jane Austen. Page 261. "Sanditon". Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts...
memory by which to judge the troubled present." Hardy's 2006 biographer ClaireTomalin praised Hardy for the beauty and precision of his descriptive writing...
sources "London", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Peter Ackroyd, ClaireTomalin and Iain Sinclair (28 September 2000) Geographic data related to London...
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