Celia Fremlin (1914–2009)
Autore di The Hours Before Dawn
Sull'Autore
Opere di Celia Fremlin
A Quiet Game 2 copie
Something Evil in the House 1 copia
Don't Tell Cissie [short story] 1 copia
The Betrayal [short fiction] 1 copia
Besettelse 1 copia
Don't Be Frightened 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Collaboratore — 52 copie
Ladies of the Gothics: Tales of Romance and Terror by the Gentle Sex (1975) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
Ellery Queen's headliners; 20 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine. (1971) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Fremlin, Celia Margaret
- Data di nascita
- 1914-06-20
- Data di morte
- 2009-06-16
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Kingsbury, Middlesex, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Bournemouth, England
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Berkhamstead School for Girls
Oxford University (Somerville College) - Attività lavorative
- interviewer (for Mass Observation)
novelist
short-story writer
mystery writer - Relazioni
- Minchin, Leslie (husband)
- Breve biografia
- The Times of London wrote in her obituary: "Celia Fremlin used to say that she wrote the sort of book she wanted to read, in which a mysterious threat hangs over someone and escalates chapter by chapter. . . Publishers sometimes treated her novels as mere precursors of the 'woman in jeopardy' genre. . . But Fremlin had an observant wit all her own, highly valued by her friends as well as her readers." Celia Fremlin was born in Kingsbury, now part of London. Her older brother, John H. Fremlin, later became a nuclear physicist. In 1942 she married Elia Goller, with whom she had three children; he died in 1968. In 1985, Celia married Leslie Minchin, a writer and translator. Her novel The Hours Before Dawn won the Edgar Award in 1960. Later in life she became known as an active advocate of voluntary euthanasia.
Utenti
Discussioni
Scary novel or story ('70's era) about a nanny in Name that Book (Febbraio 2017)
Recensioni
Liste
Edgar Award (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 30
- Opere correlate
- 35
- Utenti
- 900
- Popolarità
- #28,477
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 23
- ISBN
- 141
- Lingue
- 6
- Preferito da
- 1
Fremlin is so good at blending the cosiness of home with the ratcheting tension of outside forces threatening to disrupt it. She is also strangely great at capturing the voice of a precocious preteen boy, and the feeling of youthful ambitions and rebellions. The ending ties up a little too neatly for the realism that the story had been presenting, but given the story, I'm not sure there could have been another more satisfying ending.
Aside: real jarring to see the n-word make a few appearances here. They're supposedly spoken by the neighbourhood black kids, but they sure didn't add anything to the story nor characterisations!… (altro)