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Penelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher; 19 September 1918 – 19 October 1999) was a Welsh-born English journalist, biographer, and novelist. Her semi-autobiographical novel The Pumpkin Eater (1962) was made into a 1964 film of the same name.
Penelope Mortimer was a British journalist and novelist whose writing, depicting a nightmarish world of neuroses and broken marriages, influenced feminist fiction of the 1960s. After her graduation from the University of London, she began to write poetry, book reviews, and short stories.
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19 de out. de 1999 · Penelope Mortimer. Born. in Rhyl, The United Kingdom. September 19, 1918. Died. October 19, 1999. edit data. Early life. She was born in Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales, the younger child of an Anglican clergyman, who had lost his faith and used the parish magazine to celebrate the Soviet persecution of the Russian church.
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2 de dez. de 2018 · A profile of the British novelist Penelope Mortimer, who drew on her own experience for her fiction, and faced the challenges of being a woman writer in the public eye. Learn about her life, her books, and her controversial portrayal of her family in \"Such a Super Evening\".
11 de mai. de 2022 · Books. The Calamity of Unwanted Motherhood. Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent. By Sophie Gilbert....
Penelope Mortimer has 21 books on Goodreads with 14197 ratings. Penelope Mortimer’s most popular book is The Pumpkin Eater (Bloomsbury Classics).
23 de out. de 1999 · Penelope Mortimer, an English author who drew on her complex and often turbulent relationships with men in writing novels like ''The Pumpkin Eater'' and a heatedly debated account of the...
