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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 (born Sept. 19, 1918, Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales—died Oct. 19, 1999, London, Eng.) was a British journalist and novelist whose writing, depicting a nightmarish world of neuroses and broken marriages, influenced feminist fiction of the 1960s.
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19 de out. de 1999 · 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. He also sexually abused her.
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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 · Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent.
Penelope Mortimer has 21 books on Goodreads with 14260 ratings. Penelope Mortimer’s most popular book is The Pumpkin Eater (Bloomsbury Classics).
Lamenting the current neglect of Penelope Mortimer’s novels, Lucy Scholes blames ‘the damaging effects of the term “woman writer”’ and Mortimer’s own heavy dependence on her lived experience in her fiction, which left her readers unable ‘to separate the life from the art’.
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