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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Claire Tomalin
		Claire Tomalin looks like a nice English lady in a white dress and hat, but for the past four years she has been someone very different: a small, ambitious, lecherous young man on the make.
		Tomalin sounds the same gong of parental insensitivity when the Austens suddenly announced on Jane's 25th birthday that they were uprooting their unmarried daughters from the parsonage at Steventon and moving to Bath.
		Tomalin captures the notes of flint-edged irony and mortification of being a ``poor relation'' in Austen's letters and in the dialogue of her characters.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Claire-Tomalin (744 words)

	Brushfield
		Tomalin makes the plausible suggestion that this early separation from her mother and her home may explain the interruption in Jane's creative inspiration for several years when she was forcibly moved away from her familiar surroundings in Steventon when her father retired to live in Bath.
		At a talk by Claire Tomalin about her book that I attended on 31 October 1997 at the Theatre Royal in Bath (England), she said how aware she had been that she was seeking to retell the life of an author who was an "icon" to so many people.
		Tomalin said that Jane Austen remained, despite the known details of her life, a person who had not revealed her innermost thoughts in her writings, nor based much of her plots on situations known to her.
	facstaff.uww.edu /hipchene/JAusten/brushf.htm (838 words)

	Claire Tomalin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claire Tomalin (born June 20, 1933) is an English biographer and journalist.
		She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies.
		Tomalin's first husband Nicholas Tomalin, a prominent journalist, was killed in the Arab-Israeli Six Day War in 1973; she is now married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claire_Tomalin (237 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 15 (August 1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Tomalin discusses the fact that the character of Maurice is designed as an exemplar of ideal behavior for a child; strange perhaps when one considers that this very male-oriented tale was composed as a gift for a little girl.
		Tomalin argues that unlike Frankenstein's creature, whose abandonment and ordeals urge him to criminal acts, Maurice's innate goodness is unaffected by his separation from his family and by the many ordeals he goes through.
		Tomalin provides carefully researched accounts of the lives of the "Masons" and their two daughters, Nerina and Laurette; Laurette's career as a writer is of particular interest as Mary Shelley was to attempt to translate her Italian novel Inez de Medine for the English press in the late 1840s.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~scat0385/maurice.html (1078 words)

	CLAIRE TOMALIN
		If Tomalin does win the £25,000 prize for her biography of Samuel Pepys, she will be just the third female winner since the Whitbread was introduced - a fitting reward for someone who has spent her writing life rescuing women from obscurity.
		Claire Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay in 1933, to a French father who worked for Unesco, and an English mother who was a musician.
		Aged 28, Claire Tomalin was mourning a son, sporadically losing a husband, and looking after four children - one of whom was paralysed from the chest down.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /140703.html (6266 words)

	'Jane Austen: A Life' by Claire Tomalin
		Tomalin contends that Austen's Hampshire was hardly the stable ``backbone-of-England'' rural society one would expect: Its ever-changing cast of characters were no strangers to scandal and debt.
		The move, writes Tomalin, ``depressed her deeply enough to depress her as a writer.'' In evidence, Jane's writing spurt of the late 1790s came to an abrupt halt and would not resume for several years.
		Tomalin's ``Jane Austen: A Life'' is a welcome addition to the Austen stable of bios and appreciations.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980111review96.asp (857 words)

	BookkooB : Samuel Pepys - Claire Tomalin : Compare Book Prices
		Claire Tomalin also has much empathy with the women in Pepys' life, of whom he himself wrote little, and seems to have researched these characters extensively, and their stories are illuminating about women of that time and status.
		Claire Tomalin is able to combine the substance of the diaries with the history of the period, and present it in an interesting an unbiased way.
		Claire Tomalin is one of the new breed of historians, those that have the ability to write a really good narative that sits on top of sund history.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0141803983.htm (1259 words)

	Observer \| Life beyond the diary
		Claire Tomalin takes the subtitle to her fascinating biography from Stevenson, and it is less a rhetorical flourish than a statement of her strategy.
		Yet, as Tomalin writes: 'None of this meant he set aside his sceptical intelligence.' By 1666-7, Pepys is scribbling privately about the 'king who minds his pleasures so much' and his 'sad, vicious, negligent Court'.
		Tomalin argues that Pepys's 'gift for comedy makes it easy for us to collude with him'; her reading of the diary is as a sort of saturnalia, 'turning the rigid oughts and ought nots of life upside down'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4510748-102280,00.html (1049 words)

	Amazon.com: Jane Austen : A Life (Vintage): Books: Claire Tomalin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Claire Tomalin, author of four previous biographies of notable British women, treats Jane Austen (1775-1817) with the respect her genius deserves.
		Tomalin is apparently one of those who feel that it is not enough of an achievement for Austen to be one of the very few authors who, after two hundred years, remain both critical and popular successes.
		Tomalin makes a point of mentioning servants, but in a somewhat contradictory fashion is arguing that Jane's family should have understood her genius and supported her in the leisured style to which she was somewhat, and would have like to have been even more accustomed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679766766?v=glance (3292 words)

	SAMUEL PEPYS
		Claire Tomalin, in her turn, applies unflinching scrutiny to the whole of his life.
		Claire Tomalin, we are sure, does not spit fl phlegm, go to executions, piss in a chamber pot or beat servants with a broom.
		The diary, as Claire Tomalin puts it, "allows us to experience the world from inside his skin, and for all its huge, Shakespearean cast of characters, it is always a rhapsody on himself at the centre".
	www.arlindo-correia.com /100103.html (14478 words)

	SAMUEL PEPYS - Claire Tomalin - Penguin Books
		Claire Tomalin traces Pepys's youth before the diary began, the poor tailor's son, the schoolboy who rejoiced at the execution of Charles I, the aspiring clerk working for Cromwell's senior officials and his transformation into a royalist who helped escort Charles II back to England and the throne.
		Claire Tomalin is the author of six highly acclaimed biographies and her books have won her numerous prizes: including the Whitbread First Book Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography.
		Here, Claire Tomalin talks to penguin.co.uk about Pepys' womanizing ways, the importance of the Diary and how she nearly lost her eyesight combing through all the material available on Pepys' life.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780670885688,00.html (4232 words)

	Claire Tomalin
		Biographer Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933.
		Claire Tomalin is the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Austen.
		Claire Tomalin lives in London with her husband, the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth123&state=index=t (1477 words)

	Jane Austen : A Life: CLAIRE TOMALIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Tomalin shows how far from the truth that portrait is. Jane knew about the ins and outs of the country ball from active participation.
		Tomalin does NOT try to shoe-horn her in to some modern day feminist iconography.
		That Tomalin has brought that so vividly alive in introducing us to Jane Austen the woman is a tribute to Tomalin.
	www.bookreviewsandsummaries.com /books/0679766766.htm (443 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Claire Tomalin: A life in words
		Author Claire Tomalin has won the £25,000 Whitbread Book Award for her biography of Samuel Pepys, beating her husband and fellow contender Michael Frayn.
		Her fans must now be hoping an autobiography is near the top of her list of priorities after a life of success and tragedy, of which the Whitbread prize is the latest chapter.
		The Tomalin household even inspired a cartoon strip in The Listener, The Stringalongs of NW1, a parodying trendy literary life.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2705079.stm (677 words)

	Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin : Booksamillion.com (0375725539, Paperback)
		Tomalin intimately explores the life of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), renowned in his lifetime as a bureaucrat, a key figure in the British navy, and friend and colleague of the powerful.
		Tomalin introduces readers to the man behind the memoir, examining his early career in the government, his years as a navy official and his connections to notables such as Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren and King Charles II.
		Tomalin tells Pepys' story with energy and authority, creating a lively profile of this unique man of letters—a writer with a shrewd eye, unmatchable wit and incomparable intellect....
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0375725539 (191 words)

	Amazon.com: Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self: Books: Claire Tomalin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Tomalin gives us the whole man. We learn that Pepys was an intensely social person- he loved going out to the coffee-houses, to the theater and to concerts, etc. Although not a true scientist, he was a very curious man who wanted to know what made the world tick.
		Tomalin is over-forgiving of Pepys betrayals of friends and family, of his frequent physical and sexual abuse of women including his own wife.
		Tomalin does point this out, so I don't know why she felt it necessary to call it "sexual abuse" and mention that Pepys would be in jail if he did the same thing today.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375411437?v=glance (3100 words)

	Review - Jane Austen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Drawing on the voluminous correspondence of both Jane Austen herself and the Austen family and their friends and acquaintances, Claire Tomalin reconstructs a very different portrait of the beloved novelist and her family.
		Though Claire Tomalin never belabors the point and tends to suggest rather than theorize, it is obvious that Austen’s fiction is much more autobiographical than most of us had previously believed.
		Tomalin’s biography has an exciting "subplot," too: the story of the lovely Eliza Hancock - Jane’s favorite cousin - her marriage to the doomed French adventurer "Count" de Feuillide and her tempestuous courtship by two of Jane Austen’s brothers is the stuff of mini-series and romance novels.
	www.peers.org /revjane.html (351 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Family saga as Frayn and Tomalin vie for Whitbread
		In one of the supreme tests of marital harmony and a sense of humour, a husband and wife were yesterday set head to head in this year's contest for the Whitbread book of the year award.
		Tomalin, told that her biography Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self had made the list, said: "It was a complete surprise, because the other biographies on the shortlist are all so good.
		Tomalin's first literary success was a biography of Mary Wollstonecroft.
	books.guardian.co.uk /whitbread2002/story/0,12605,870614,00.html (537 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
		About the Author: Claire Tomalin is the author of six acclaimed biographies: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs.
		Then there is the bureaucrat heroically working against the odds to create a modern navy, finding his way through the dangerous years of political and religious conflict (even, at one point, being charged with treason and jailed), peacefully retiring at last with his books and his music and his friends.
		It is Claire Tomalin's unique skill as a biographer to achieve extraordinary intimacy with her subject, and Pepys is no exception.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53213281 (447 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Tomalin wins Whitbread prize
		Biographer Claire Tomalin has won the prestigious Whitbread book award, beating her husband Michael Frayn to the £25,000 prize.
		Tomalin was the bookmaker's favourite for the prize, which is awarded to the outstanding book of the year.
		Tomalin and her husband were the first married couple to compete for the prize.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2699703.stm (625 words)

	Alibris: Claire Tomalin
		Now Claire Tomalin, biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft and Katherine Mansfield, penetrates the secrecy to offer a fascinating biographical work--the story of a love affair, strange, affecting,...
		Tomalin's brilliantly perceptive study interprets Mansfield's sexual liaisons, extravagant lies, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and her marriage to the self-absorbed John Middleton Murry--as well as the physical decline that led to her...
		This collection of memoirs and newspaper pieces chronicles Tomalin's experience beginning with her graduation from Cambridge in the 1950s (one year ahead of Sylvia Plath, she points out), through her short career in publishing where she was more than aware of the "glass ceiling," and finally details her life as a leading biographer (of Mary...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Tomalin,Claire (508 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Claire Tomalin was born to write a biography of Samuel Pepys.
		In Pepys Tomalin has found her perfect subject, a man who is "both the most ordinary and the most extraordinary writer you will ever meet".
		Pepys wrote his diary throughout the 1660s, "a period as intellectually thrilling as it was dangerous and bloody", and Tomalin's book vividly brings to life the tumultuous world of 17-century London, where Pepys grew up.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140282343 (1350 words)

	Powell's Books - Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
		Buttressing it with less familiar sources and other contemporary material, she is able to illuminate his entire life–as a poor London tailor’s son, as a schoolboy rejoicing at the execution of Charles I, as an aspiring clerk with good connections who transforms himself into a royalist, escorting Charles II to England for the Restoration.
		In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language.
		Claire Tomalin is the author of six acclaimed biographies: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0375411437 (562 words)

	Claire Tomalin's Chicken Little story. By Meghan O'Rourke
		The initial splash of publicity enthusiastically fastened on the unusual fact that Tomalin had beat out her husband Michael Frayn, who, like her, had won a best-book-in-its-genre prize (in her case, Biography; in his, Novel), and thus was eligible to win the larger honor.
		In fact, it's hard to think of a single prominent award-winning book in recent years that was not written by people who sat at their desk quite alone (and in some cases, even blindfolded, in the case of Jonathan Franzen).
		Tomalin's offhand statement reveals that the literary world's anxiety about status has reached such a pitch that even successful, intelligent authors like Tomalin are moved to express their gratitude that "pure books" are still being read.
	www.slate.com /id/2077952 (848 words)

	Amazon.ca: Samuel Pepys: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Tomalin's admiration for her subject is infectious, and will ensure that her biography becomes the standard reference for anyone interested in both Pepys's life and his art.--Jerry Brotton --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
		Claire Tomalin's new biography of Samuel Pepys comes to us trailing its own interesting literary tidbit.
		Tomalin, who previously has written acclaimed biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and Jane Austen—to name a few—won this year's Whitbread Prize for her work about England's most candid 17th century diarist, Samuel Pepys.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141805501 (452 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Claire Tomalin wins the Whitbread Prize for her Pepys biography
		Claire Tomalin’s book is extremely detailed, extremely well written and simply has more and better material on Pepys than I’ve seen anywhere else.
		Tomalin probably has the most well-rounded descriptions to be found anywhere of the women in Pepys’s life.
		“Claire Tomalin is moved by Frances Harris’s account of an enduring emotional attachment between John Evelyn and a maid of honour at Charles II’s court..”
	www.pepysdiary.com /about/archive/2003/01/28/232.php (916 words)

	Denver Post Online: Books & Authors
		In her marvelous new biography of Austen, the English writer Claire Tomalin strips away this mythology to reveal a tough, humorous and highly resourceful woman.
		Writing in vivid, authoritative prose, Tomalin does a masterly job of delineating the complex emotional mathematics of the Austen clan, showing us the bonds of rivalry, affection and dependence that linked Jane with her sister and six brothers, and their myriad cousins.
		In fact, Tomalin speculates that one of the central emotional events in Austen's life was her mother's decision to hand her over to a local woman for rearing during the first year of her life.
	extras.denverpost.com /books/book98.htm (695 words)

	Amazon.com: Jane Austen : A Life: Books: Claire Tomalin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Claire Tomalin examines her elusive subject from very possible perspective.
		Tomalin is an excellent writer: straightforward, witty, and articulate about my favorite author's life.
		Tomalin's book was well researched and brought me into Jane's life as no other book has done.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679446281?v=glance (3313 words)

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