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1 nov 1995 · She met barrister and writer John Mortimer while pregnant with the last child and married him in 1949. Together they had a daughter and a son. She had one novel, Johanna, published under her name, Penelope Dimont, then as Penelope Mortimer, she authored A Villa in Summer (1954; Michael Joseph). It received critical acclaim. More novels followed.
22 apr 2011 · Penelope Mortimer (1918-1999) was born in Ryhl, Wales, and wrote nine novels in addition to contributions to the New Yorker and The Sunday Times. hide caption. toggle caption Although ...
Penelope Mortimer. geboren 1918 im walisischen Rhyl, studierte in London und arbeitete als Kummerkastentante für die Daily Mail.Ihre Kurzgeschichten erschienen regelmäßig im New Yorker und in der Sunday Times, ihr Debütroman Johanna wurde 1947 veröffentlicht.
The Pumpkin Eater, Penelope Mortimer's outstanding semi-autobiographical novel about the mother of a large family and wife to a serially unfaithful husband, has been seen as an early feminist trailblazer (its author tagged as one of the 'Angry Young Women').
1 gen 2001 · Penelope Mortimer. 21 books57 followers. Follow. Early life. She was born in Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales, the younger child of an Anglican clergyman, who had lost his faith and used the parish magazine to celebrate the Soviet persecution of the Russian church. He also sexually abused her.
26 apr 2011 · Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999) was born Penelope Ruth Fletcher in North Wales, the younger of two children of an Anglican clergyman father and his wife. The family moved often, and Penelope was educated at half a dozen institutions before spending a year at the University of London.
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The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist’s couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast, swelling brood of ...
