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Penelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher; 19 September 1918 – 19 October 1999) was a Welsh-born English journalist, biographer, and novelist. Her semi-autobiographical novel The Pumpkin Eater (1962) was made into a 1964 film of the same name.
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- 19 October 1999 (aged 81), Kensington, England
Penelope Ruth Mortimer, nata Fletcher, è stata una scrittrice, giornalista e biografa britannica. Il suo romanzo quasi autobiografico The Pumpkin Eater è stato adattato in un film del 1964 per il quale Anne Bancroft vinse il premio come migliore attrice al 17º Festival di Cannes per la sua interpretazione di Jo Armitage ...
27 mar 2024 · Penelope Mortimer (born Sept. 19, 1918, Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales—died Oct. 19, 1999, London, Eng.) was a British journalist and novelist whose writing, depicting a nightmarish world of neuroses and broken marriages, influenced feminist fiction of the 1960s.
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29 giu 2015 · As her 1962 novel The Pumpkin Eater becomes a Penguin Classic, we re-examine the life of Penelope Mortimer, who tackled difficult subjects in a style that still sounds vital today.
22 ott 1999 · Penelope Mortimer, who has died of cancer aged 81, might not immediately be thought of as a feminist, but her nine novels all took up the cudgels on behalf of women - most notably The Pumpkin...
19 ott 1999 · 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.
5 giu 2015 · Penelope Mortimer è una scrittrice che ha inaugurato, con il suo romanzo “The Pumpkin Eater”, quello che sarebbe diventato per antonomasia il romanzo ‘femminile’: per la prima volta, almeno con questi risultati, una voce ha parlato dell’essere donna alle donne e agli uomini.
