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Victoria Glendinning CBE FRSL (née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is an honorary vice-president of English PEN and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for biography.

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Victoria Glendinning

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father to come home", Glendinning said in a 1999 interview. Her sister is Caroline Seebohm, an American biographer. Glendinning grew up near York and...

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Glendinning

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Glendinning is a surname, of Scottish origin. Brian Glendinning (born 1934), English footballer Chellis Glendinning (born 1947), psychotherapist Ernest...

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Elizabeth Bowen

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life is held annually. In 1977, Victoria Glendinning published the first biography of Elizabeth Bowen. In 2009, Glendinning published a book about the relationship...

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Royal Society of Literature

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Simon Armitage Mary Beard Anne Chisholm Maureen Duffy Maggie Gee Victoria Glendinning Jackie Kay Blake Morrison Grace Nichols Philip Pullman Elif Shafak...

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Trekkie Parsons

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Woolf and Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, 1941–1968 ISBN 0-7126-6473-4 From Leonard Woolf: A Biography by Victoria Glendinning, Nov. 2006 ISBN 0-7432-4653-5...

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Twelfth Night

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Edwardians are named Sebastian and Viola, and are brother and sister. Victoria Glendinning comments, in her introduction to the novel: "Sebastian is the boy-heir...

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The Best of the Booker

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titles were announced on 12 May 2008 and were chosen by novelist Victoria Glendinning, broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and Professor of English at University...

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Costa Book Awards

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of Fortune John Fuller Flying to Nowhere Roald Dahl The Witches — Victoria Glendinning Vita Kenneth Rose King George V — 1984 Christopher Hope Kruger's...

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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

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taking five years to write beginning in 1936. West's biographer, Victoria Glendinning, called it "the central book of her life". It is "a key book about...

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The Village in the Jungle

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from the indigenous point of view rather than the coloniser's." Victoria Glendinning described it as "a foundational novel in the Sri Lankan literary...

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Terence de Vere White

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interview with Victoria Glendinning, The Sunday Business Post, July 21, 2002 "Confessions of a storyteller - interview with Victoria Glendinning: ThePost.ie"...

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Ross Glendinning

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"Ross Glendinning: Good as gold". The Footy Almanac. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Ross Glendinning at AustralianFootball.com Ross Glendinning's playing...

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Simon Glendinning

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Simon Glendinning (born 1964) is an English philosopher. Glendinning is Professor of European Philosophy and Head of department in the European Institute...

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Oxford

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(1960–2007), Oxford resident, undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall. Victoria Glendinning (born 1937), undergraduate at Somerville. Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)...

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Paul Glendinning

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Glendinning and the writer and broadcaster Victoria Glendinning. His brother is the philosopher Simon Glendinning.[citation needed] Paul Glendinning publications...

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A Legacy

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including Victoria Glendinning and Roger Kimball, cite it as evidence of Bedford's underrated brilliance. Jigsaw (novel) Glendinning, Victoria (13 March...

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List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize

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Viking 1992 Winners Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Bloomsbury Victoria Glendinning (chair) John Coldstream Valentine Cunningham Dr Harriet Harvey Wood...

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Sissinghurst Castle Garden

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1964, p. 42. Nicolson 2008b, p. 45. Nicolson 1964, p. 44. Glendinning 2005, p. 1. Glendinning 2005, p. 9. Sackville-West 2010, p. 232. Brown 1998, p. 24...

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The Fermata

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of critics on the book was mixed. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Victoria Glendinning stated "it is a moral challenge to be faced or it is simply meant...

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Edith Sitwell

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Gallery, London] (1994) Geoffrey Elborn, Edith Sitwell, A Life (1981) Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell, A Unicorn Among Lions (1981) John Malcolm Brinnin...

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Rebecca West

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also in 1966. From a copy of Cousin Rosamund with an afterword by Victoria Glendinning; Macmillan, 1995. Rebecca West (18 October 2004). Bernard Schweizer...

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Costa Book Award for Biography

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Chancellor, the first Chancellor of Germany Winner 1983 Victoria Glendinning Vita The Honorable Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (1892–1962)...

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Evelyn Irons

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Vita's heart" – but the romance was brief. According to biographer Victoria Glendinning, in 1931 Irons went as editor of the Daily Mail women's page to interview...

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Bridport

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has played host to literary figures such as Elizabeth Jane Howard, Victoria Glendinning, Minette Walters and Fay Weldon. Bridport Food Festival is held in...

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List of Question Time episodes

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William Waldegrave [173] 472 27 21 October 1993 Birmingham Alan Clark, Victoria Glendinning, Robert Key, Peter Mandelson [174] 473 28 28 October 1993 London...

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

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Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions (Edith Sitwell) — 1982 Bruce...

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Shaftesbury Abbey

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based on the dissolution of the Abbey, The Butcher's Daughter, by Victoria Glendinning was published in 2018. Matrix is a 2021 historical novel by Lauren...

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