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Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads, The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennett's house in Camden Town. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move, with her van, to his front drive. Initially reluctant, she agreed - and Bennett landed himself a tenancy that went on for fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is probably Alan Bennett's best-known work of non-fiction, and follows his other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.… (altro)
En 1974, cuando Miss Shepherd y su furgoneta se instalaron definitivamente en el jardín de la casa de Alan Bennett, ya hacía varios años que ambas eran conocidas en el barrio. Tras algunos extraños encuentros, y después de que algunos gamberros comenzaran a atacarla, Alan Bennett le sugirió que pasara las noches en un cobertizo de su jardín. Aunque, afirma el escritor, él jamás se engañó pensando que su impulso obedecía a razones puramente caritativas; aquel sadismo le había perturbado demasiado, se pasaba el día vigilando a Miss Shepherd, y así no podía escribir. Y éste fue el comienzo de una convivencia que duraría quince años, hasta la muerte de la excéntrica, reservada y digna Miss Shepherd, una persona y una presencia muy reales, y con más de una identidad y una vida, como descubrió Bennett después de su muerte.
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'I ran into a snake this afternoon,' Miss Shepherd said. 'It was coming up Parkway. It was a long, grey snake - a boa constrictor possibly. It looked poisonous. It was keeping close to the wall and seemed to know its way. I've a feeling it may have been headed for the van.' I was relieved that on this occasion she didn't demand that I ring the police, as she regularly did if anything out of the ordinary occurred.
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Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.
William Hazlitt, 'On the Knowledge of Character' (1822)
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Her grave in the Islington St Pancras Cemetery is scarcely less commodious than the narrow space she slept in the previous twenty years. It is unmarked, but I think as someone so reluctant to admit her name or divulge any information about herself, she would not have been displeased by that.
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The Lady in the Van is the title of two distinct works by Alan Bennett, a prose narrative (1989) and a play (2000). This work record is for the prose narrative. Please do not combine it with the record for the play.
Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads, The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennett's house in Camden Town. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move, with her van, to his front drive. Initially reluctant, she agreed - and Bennett landed himself a tenancy that went on for fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is probably Alan Bennett's best-known work of non-fiction, and follows his other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.
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