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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.
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- 19 October 1999 (aged 81), Kensington, England
27 de mar. de 2024 · 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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22 de out. de 1999 · Giles Gordon. Thu 21 Oct 1999 21.10 EDT. Penelope Mortimer, who has died of cancer aged 81, might not immediately be thought of as a feminist, but her nine novels all took up the cudgels on...
29 de jun. de 2015 · Penelope Mortimer – return of the original angry young woman. As her 1962 novel The Pumpkin Eater becomes a Penguin Classic, Rachel Cooke re-examines the life of Penelope Mortimer, who...
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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Quick Reference. (1918–99), novelist, whose works, with their emphasis on frankness about female experience, contributed to the development of the women's novel in the 1960s. They include The Pumpkin Eater (1962), The House (1971), Long Distance (1974), and The Handyman (1983).
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....
