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Patricia Beer (1919–1999)

Autore di Reader, I Married Him

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Fonte dell'immagine: © Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London

Opere di Patricia Beer

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The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 6 (1973) — Collaboratore — 85 copie
Modern Women Poets (2005) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Poetry anthology (2000) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni6 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Beer, Patricia
Data di nascita
1919-11-04
Data di morte
1999-08-15
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
UK
Nazione (per mappa)
England, UK
Luogo di nascita
Exmouth, Devon, England, UK
Luogo di morte
Upottery, Devon, England, UK
Luogo di residenza
Honiton, Devon, England, UK
Padua, Italy
Istruzione
University of Oxford
Exeter University
Attività lavorative
poet
literary critic
memoirist
novelist
Relazioni
Furbank, P.N. (1st husband)
Organizzazioni
Plymouth Brethren
University of London
Breve biografia
Patricia Beer was born in Exmouth, Devonshire, into a family of Plymouth Brethren, a nonconformist evangelical Christian sect. As a young adult, she later moved away from her religious background. She attended Exmouth Grammar School before reading English at Exeter University. She went on to Oxford for her BLitt degree and after World War II, spent seven years in Italy, teaching English literature at the University of Padua, the British Institute, and the Ministero Aeronautica in Rome. In 1953, she returned to England and became senior lecturer in English at Goldsmiths' College, London. After 1968, she devoted herself full- time to writing. Besides poetry, her publications included Mrs. Beer's House (1968), an acclaimed memoir of her childhood and family; Reader: I Married Him (1974), a collection of literary criticism; and Moon's Ottery (1978), a novel set in 16th-century Devon. She also edited several major anthologies and contributed to literary reviews.
She was married twice, first to the writer P.N. Furbank, and then to Damien Parsons, an architect, with whom she settled again in Devon. Her Collected Poems was published in 1988.

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A forgotten gem of a book, long out of print, Moon's Ottery is set in Elizabethan Devon at the time of the Armada. Unlike many other historial novels, this one gives a genuinely felt sense of what it must have been like to have been there. Everyday life is portrayed in all its earthy reality, humour, sadness and poetry. An engaging heroine too.
 
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16
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6
Utenti
96
Popolarità
#196,089
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
1
ISBN
22

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