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Dame Margaret Drabble Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939), commonly known as simply Margaret Drabble, is an English novelist, biographer and critic.
Drabble was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, as the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie, née Bloor. Her elder sister is the novelist and critic A. S. Byatt and their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon.
She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1960, at one point serving as an understudy for Vanessa Redgrave, before leaving to pursue a literary career.
Novels
* A Summer Bird Cage (1963)
* The Garrick Year (1964)
* The Millstone (1965)
* Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
* The Waterfall (1969)
* The Needle's Eye (1972)
* The Realms of Gold (1975)
* The Ice Age (1977)
* The Middle Ground (1980)
* Hassan's Tower (1980)
* The Radiant Way (1987)
* A Natural Curiosity (1989)
* The Gates of Ivory (1991)
* The Witch of Exmoor (1996)
* The Peppered Moth (2001)
* The Seven Sisters (2002)
* The Red Queen (2004)
* The Sea Lady (2006)
Selected non-fiction
* Wordsworth (Literature in Perspective series) (1966)
* Arnold Bennett: A Biography (1974)
* The Genius of Thomas Hardy (ed.) (1976)
* For Queen and Country: Britain in the Victorian Age (1978)
* A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature (1979)
* Angus Wilson: A Biography (1995)
* The Oxford Companion to English Literature (ed.; 5th & 6th edns) (1985, 2000)
* The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (2009)
Drabble was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, as the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie, née Bloor. Her elder sister is the novelist and critic A. S. Byatt and their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon.
She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1960, at one point serving as an understudy for Vanessa Redgrave, before leaving to pursue a literary career.
Novels
* A Summer Bird Cage (1963)
* The Garrick Year (1964)
* The Millstone (1965)
* Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
* The Waterfall (1969)
* The Needle's Eye (1972)
* The Realms of Gold (1975)
* The Ice Age (1977)
* The Middle Ground (1980)
* Hassan's Tower (1980)
* The Radiant Way (1987)
* A Natural Curiosity (1989)
* The Gates of Ivory (1991)
* The Witch of Exmoor (1996)
* The Peppered Moth (2001)
* The Seven Sisters (2002)
* The Red Queen (2004)
* The Sea Lady (2006)
Selected non-fiction
* Wordsworth (Literature in Perspective series) (1966)
* Arnold Bennett: A Biography (1974)
* The Genius of Thomas Hardy (ed.) (1976)
* For Queen and Country: Britain in the Victorian Age (1978)
* A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature (1979)
* Angus Wilson: A Biography (1995)
* The Oxford Companion to English Literature (ed.; 5th & 6th edns) (1985, 2000)
* The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (2009)
