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Victoria Glendinning

Hon Victoria Glendinning CBE (23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was awarded a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature.

She was born in Sheffield to a Quaker family, Her father was Baron Seebohm. Glendinning grew up near York and went to the University of Oxford to study modern languages. In the second year of her degree, she married one of her Spanish lecturers, Professor Nigel Glendinning in 1958. They divorced in 1981. Her second husband Terence de Vere White died of Parkinson's disease in 1994 and she remarried in 1996. She had four sons (before she was 28) including Matthew Glendinning, with whom she coauthored the book Sons and Mothers, and the mathematician Paul Glendinning. Another son, Simon Glendinning, lectures in European Philosophy at the London School of Economics having previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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Born 23 April 1937

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Biography, Authors, english, Fiction, English Authors, Fiction, general, English Novelists, History, New York Times reviewed, Authors, biography, Biographies, Bowen, elizabeth, 1899-1973, Women authors, Young women, Authors, English, Authors, correspondence, Biografie, Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, Large type books, Manners and customs, Novelists, English, Trollope, anthony, 1815-1882, West, rebecca, 1892-1983, Airports, Australia, fiction

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Great Britain, England, Australia, France, Hertfordshire (England), Indonesia, Sri Lanka

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Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), Edith Sitwell, Edith Sitwell Dame (1887-1964), Edith, Dame, 1887-1964 Sitwell, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Leonard (Publizist) Woolf, Leonard Woolf (1880-1969), Rebecca West (1892-1983), Rebecca West Dame (1892-), Thomas Stamford Raffles Sir (1781-1826), V. Sackville-West (1892-1962), Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Wilhelmina Seebohm (1863-1885), Winnie Seebohm (1863-1885)

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20th century, 19th century, 18e siècle, 18th century, Henry VIII, 1509-1547

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March 22, 2024 Edited by kathrinpassig added date of birth
March 22, 2024 Edited by kathrinpassig merge authors
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import