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17 de mai. de 2022 · Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999) was the author of nine novels; one collection of short stories; two volumes of memoir, the Whitbread Prize-winning About Time and About Time Too; and a biography of the Queen Mother. Her screenwriting credits include Otto Preminger’s Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), which she cowrote with her then-husband John ...
6 de abr. de 2011 · Penelope Mortimer was born in North Wales on Sept. 19, 1918, the younger of two children of an eccentric clergyman father and a self-effacing, industrious mother.
Penelope Ruth Mortimer, nata Fletcher (Rhyl, 19 settembre 1918 – Kensington, 19 ottobre 1999), è stata una scrittrice, giornalista e biografa britannica.. Il suo romanzo quasi autobiografico The Pumpkin Eater (letteralmente: il mangiatore di zucca) (1962) è stato adattato in un film del 1964 per il quale Anne Bancroft vinse il premio come migliore attrice al 17º Festival di Cannes per la ...
Penelope Mortimer. geboren 1918 im walisischen Rhyl, studierte in London und arbeitete als Kummerkastentante für die Daily Mail.Ihre Kurzgeschichten erschienen regelmäßig im New Yorker und in der Sunday Times, ihr Debütroman Johanna wurde 1947 veröffentlicht.
22 de abr. de 2011 · Jessa Crispin. The Pumpkin Eater. By Penelope Mortimer. Paperback, 224 pages. New York Review of Books. List Price: $14.95. Read An Excerpt. In 1963, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique shook ...
11 de mai. de 2022 · The protagonist of Penelope Mortimer’s 1958 novel, Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting, is a 37-year-old housewife named Ruth, who is sliding into a madness of midlife suffocation and despair.Alone in her ...
The Pumpkin Eater, Penelope Mortimer's outstanding semi-autobiographical novel about the mother of a large family and wife to a serially unfaithful husband, has been seen as an early feminist trailblazer (its author tagged as one of the 'Angry Young Women'). Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay for th
