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2 de dez. de 2018 · The story of British novelist Penelope Mortimer is, in part, the all too familiar tale of a woman writer plagued by her readership’s inability to separate the life from the art. This situation was made all the more complicated because Penelope drew so very heavily on her lived experience when it came to the fiction she put down on the page. As debates around this issue still rage today ...
Unter dem Namen Penelope Dimont debütierte Mortimer 1947 mit dem Roman Johanna als Schriftstellerin. Ihr zweiter Roman A Villa in Summer, welcher 1954 veröffentlicht wurde, erschien schließlich unter dem Namen Penelope Mortimer. Diese, sowie alle folgenden Romane wurden sowohl vom Publikum, als auch von den Kritikern wohlwollend ...
Penelope Ruth Mortimer (de soltera Fletcher, 19 de septiembre de 1918 – 19 de octubre de 1999) fue una periodista, biógrafa y novelista inglesa nacida en Gales. Su novela semiautobiográfica El devorador de calabaza (1962) se adaptó en una película de 1964 por la que Anne Bancroft fue nominada para el Oscar a la mejor actriz por su papel de Jo Armitage, un personaje basado en la propia ...
25 de mar. de 2014 · In 1966 the writer Penelope Mortimer endured a painful sterilization operation that left her with a giant scar across her belly. She languished in a “home” recuperating from a severe depression.
Penelope Mortimer has 21 books on Goodreads with 14260 ratings. Penelope Mortimer’s most popular book is The Pumpkin Eater (Bloomsbury Classics).
Mortimer continued in journalism, mainly for The Sunday Times, and also wrote screenplays. Her biography of the Queen Mother was commissioned by Macmillan, but when completed, it was rejected so instead Viking published it in 1986. Her former agent Giles Gordon in his Guardian obituary called it "the most astute biography of a royal since Lytton Strachey was at work. Penelope had approached ...
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
