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24 de mar. de 2023 · StuckinaBook All March 24, 2023 4 Comments. Last year, one of my favourite reads was Penelope Mortimer’s darkly funny 1970s novel The Home. Such is the surprising speed of things, sometimes at least, that less than a year later it is available as a British Library Women’s Writers title! It’s out now in the UK (and you can ship abroad for ...
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 ...
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
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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 ...
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.
In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. Strange, unsettling and shot through with black comedy, this ...
