An Education (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Lynn Barber: Journalist
• Simon Goldman: Older Jewish suitor Lynn had while a teenager. Con man who went by several different names.
• David Maurice Cloudesley Cardiff: Lynn's husband.
• Rosie: Lynn's older daughter.
• Theo: Lynn's younger daughter.
• Bob Guccione: Editor-in-chief of Penthouse.
• Kathy: Guccione's mistress and head of advertising at Penthouse in its early days in London.
• Danny: Simon's much more interesting partner.
• Helen: Danny's dim-witted girlfriend.
• Charles: Add a description of this character.
• Dick: Lynn's first boyfriend at Oxford.
• Harry Fieldhouse: Lynn's editor at Penthouse.
• Maurice
• Graydon Carter: Editor of Vanity Fair.
• Luke
• Richard
• Stockwell
• Nick Nolte: Subject of interview for Vanity Fair that didn't get published.
• Joe Brooks
• Steve
• Hugh
• Ron Hall
• R. Garwood Scott
• Lynn Hope: A girl who competed in speech contests with Lynn Barber.
• Stephen Glover
• Leonora: Lynn's Jewish mother-in-law.
• Jane Asher

Quotes edit see section history

• “It occurs to me that most of the poems my mother taught would have seemed 'modern' at the time, or modernist, in that they derived more from Browning than Wordsworth. But then, if they were modern, why were they so obsessed with goblins and elves? Where did that come from? Was there some elvish revival, perhaps associated with the Celtic revival, in the early decades of the twentieth century? And of course as soon as I write elvish, I think, Oh yes, Tolkien, and remember that there was also a folk revival, associated with Morris dancing and Cecil Sharp, in the Thirties, which must have played a part. But still, they were bloody irritating, those elves.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• New York
• Oxford
• England
• Cornwall
• Cambridge
• Bristol
• Eton
• Auchtermuchty
• Wiltshire

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lynn Barber (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 920

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Journalists
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs

Movie Connections edit see section history

• An Education (IMDb): In the early 1960s, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford.

Books Influenced by This Book edit see section history