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	AllRefer.com - Margaret Drabble (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Margaret Drabble, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		Drabble's realistic vision of an England split between traditional values and contemporary desires is apparent in such works as The Millstone (1965), The Waterfall (1969), and The Middle Ground (1980), and in her critical studies on Wordsworth (1966) and Arnold Bennett (1974).
		Increasingly Drabble's focus has moved from society as a whole to the fate of women, as in The Radiant Way (1987), its sequel, A Natural Curiosity (1989), The Gates of Ivory (1991), The Peppered Moth (2001), whose central character is based on her mother, and The Seven Sisters (2002).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Drabble.html (252 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Drabble, Margaret
		Margaret Drabble is oft given to have asserted: “I’d rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore” (qtd.
		Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939, into a middle-class, literary family, her mother a teacher and her father a judge.
		Drabble’s unexpected pregnancy further settled her into the writing life, and she found both the pleasure of motherhood and the sedentary occupation of the writer compatible, though clearly the dilemma of the college-educated, career-oriented woman adjusting to marriage and domesticity figures into her early fiction.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1310 (1892 words)

	Margaret Drabble: The Witch of Exmoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Drabble's new novel, her first for five years, brilliantly interweaves high comedy and personal tragedy with questions about social justice and progress, as she unravels the story of this end-of-the-century family whose comfortable, rational lives - both public and private - are violently disrupted by a succession of sinister, messy events.
		Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and went to the Mount School, York, a Quaker boarding school.
		Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London.
	www.redmood.com /drabble/witch.html (306 words)

	THE WITCH OF EXMOOR by Margaret Drabble
		Drabble effectively evokes Frieda's intellectual life and her present extreme condition, although this testy heroine is necessarily offstage for considerable stretches of the story.
		I wonder if there was any debate between Drabble and her editor about cutting altogether the rather silly epilogue on the afterlife, quite literally, in some cases, of her characters.
		On the evidence of this book, Drabble at this stage in her career is not going to be the writer to create "whole new patterns" required to write the defining condition-of-England novel of the very late 20th century.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/09/28/drabble.html (910 words)

	Margaret Drabble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Drabble, known as "Maggie" to her friends, was born June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
		Her father, John Frederick Drabble, was a barrister, a county court judge and a novelist.
		Drabble's realistic vision of an England split between traditional values and contemporary desires is visible in such works as The Millstone (1965), The Waterfall (1969), and The Middle Ground (1980), and in her critical studies on Wordsworth (1966) and Arnold Bennett (1974).
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/drabble_margaret.htm (488 words)

	The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble - review
		Drabble also draws additional parallels between actual events from around the world, as depicted in contemporary newspapers, and what has happened in the life of the Princess, in an effort to make connections across cultures and time.
		Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield on 1939.
		Margaret Drabble is also the author of biographies of Arnold Bennett (1974) and Angus Wilson (1995), and is editor of both the fifth (1985) and sixth (2000) editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
	mostlyfiction.com /history/drabble.htm (944 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: Investing in Conrad, Investing in the Orient: Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory - ...
		In The Gates of Ivory (1991), Margaret Drabble's enterprise, and that of her protagonists, is stamped by Joseph Conrad's legacy, one that remains problematic, contested, and controversial.
		It is to Joseph Conrad that Margaret Drabble turns to contemplate, if not to explain, the cruel and bewildering path of contemporary civilization, and to interrogate the shifting definitions of postmodernity.
		Drabble's narrative, constructed without chapter division, begins by questioning its own form--"This is a novel--if novel it be" (3)--and continues to draw attention to its own procedures, to interrogate plot choices, to identify its bibliographic sources, and so to rehearse some of the conventions of metafiction.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_3_45/ai_58926037 (1081 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
		This much is beyond critical fancy, because Drabble states it in uncompromising terms in an afterword that strikes one as very much like the optical illusion that shows at one moment the appearance of a duck, the next a rabbit, but never both at the same time.
		In a Methodist chapel in South Yorkshire, she introduces the representative of the living, "bobby-dazzler" Faro Gaulden, a science journalist whose vitality is undermined by morbid tendencies in the shape of her reluctant attachment to a gloomy, manipulative boyfriend and her simultaneous fascination with and fear of the vertiginous possibilities of genetic research.
		As Drabble throws herself behind the living, her dead characters increasingly begin to resemble Larkin's "fools in old-style hats and coats", which is both support for her arguments about the arrogance of the present and evidence of unfortunate weakness.
	www.booksunlimited.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,418192,00.html (981 words)

	Bryn Mawr Now: Margaret Drabble to Visit Campus
		Margaret Drabble will read from her work on March 16, at 7:30 p.m., in Thomas Great Hall, as part of Bryn Mawr's Visiting Writers Series.
		Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England in 1939, Margaret Drabble was educated at a Quaker boarding school and awarded a scholarship to Cambridge University, where she read English and received double honors.
		Drabble frequently makes women the central characters of her books and develops her characters in relation to the political, economic and social changes that Great Britain has experienced.
	www.brynmawr.edu /news/2004-02-26/drabble.shtml (432 words)

	The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble: Reviews
		Drabble is sleight-of-hand adept at slipping profoundly insightful musings on human nature, history, and social mores into scintillating and all-consuming novels.
		Drabble writes exquisitely, but never more so than when she is describing fashion or art.
		Drabble's tale is a quiet love song to literature, an illustration as to how reader and subject become intertwined.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/drabblemargaret/redqueen (688 words)

	The Red Queen (Margaret Drabble) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Drabble creates obvious parallels between the life of the Princess and that of Halliwell from the outset of Part II.
		Drabble draws additional parallels between recent news events from around the world and events in the life of the Princess, in an effort to continue the connections across cultures and time.
		Drabble's tale of two women is contextually rich, layered with the weight of centuries and the interpretations of history.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0151011060.htm (1303 words)

	MSN Encarta - Margaret Drabble
		A native of Sheffield, England, Drabble graduated with honors from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1960.
		Influenced by the writings of British novelist Arnold Bennett and French novelist Simone de Beauvoir, Drabble’s novels assess the personal and moral dilemmas contemporary women face in reconciling the claims of career, marriage, and motherhood.
		Drabble explored the dilemmas of intelligent women who enter late middle age alone in The Witch of Exmoor (1997), The Peppered Moth (2001), and The Seven Sisters (2002).
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579573/Margaret_Drabble.html (170 words)

	How women, worlds and times apart, can be similar - The Washington Times: Books - November 28, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Drabble, as she tells us in her Prologue: "What struck me most forcibly about the memoirs, when I first read them, was the sense of the clarity of the individual self, speaking clearly and directly and personally, across space, time and culture.
		Drabble has invoked the idea of universals on behalf of her plan to present a freewheeling, admittedly fictionalized version of the Korean princess and her history, the question remains: Whether or not it's good history, is this novel good fiction?
		Drabble captures in this novel, for all its flaws, is that peculiarly modern (or perhaps postmodern?) sensation of commingled speed and inertia, frivolity and intensity, shallowness and depth that seems to come with globe-hopping conferences, rapid immersions in other cultures, and the sense of living in a shrinking world with growing problems.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20041127-111229-1643r.htm (1331 words)

	Anti Essays : English : A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
		Drabble narrates the novel in third person omniscient which allows her to venture into the minds of the diverse characters.
		Drabble’s description of Alix Bowen’s obsession with a murderer named Paul Whitmore who had held her hostage in the past, allows the reader identify with Alix’s innocence.
		Drabble shows no fear in coming right out and stating her points, and this indicates the sophistication of her style.
	antiessays.bigwonk.com /show.php?eid=255 (505 words)

	Salon \| Sneak Peeks
		Drabble successfully chips away at the family's façade to show how the siblings, who appeared close enough to weekend and vacation together, become consumed with suspicion and ill will after they realize that their inheritance may have shifted out from under them.
		Drabble also interweaves a theme about the difficulty of creating a just society, though its entry into the plot is less successful than the rest of the book.
		Indeed, her fictional MP would have his chance to try to make an unjust society more just, but Drabble appears to question how successful he could be at such an effort, largely because of the blinders worn by his relatives, who refuse to see the wreckage all around them.
	www.salonmagazine.com /sept97/sneaks/sneak970915.html (481 words)

	Drabble, Margaret -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The novels of English author Margaret Drabble are variations on the theme of a girl's development toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood.
		Drabble wrote in the tradition of such authors as George Eliot, Henry James, and Arnold Bennett.
		The daughter of a judge and the sister of novelist A.S. Byatt, Drabble was born on June 5, 1939, in Sheffield, …;
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9321778 (671 words)

	Margaret Drabble -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939) is an English (Someone who writes novels) novelist.
		She was born in (A steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry) Sheffield, (A former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties) Yorkshire, as the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie, née Bloor.
		Her older sister Antonia Susan was to become 1990's (Click link for more info and facts about Booker Prize) Booker Prize winner (Click link for more info and facts about A. Byatt) A.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/margaret_drabble.htm (583 words)

	UK novelist Margaret Drabble writes: I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world
		Margaret Drabble stops short of telling us how she'll act on her wrath, but one can imagine U.N. shock troops bursting in our living rooms and hauling us off to international tribunals backed by gas chambers and concentration camps.
		Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory embraces the globe and confronts the realities and deceptions of global culture, filtering the textures of contemporary life in England from the mid- to the late 1980s, as well as the stories that knitted England and the West to the politics of Southeast Asia.
		When Drabble is an old woman, living off the fruits of long and satisfying writing career, she'll have the opportunity to realize that her safety was bought by Australian, Polish, Czech, American, and British troops in 2003 when we took the war on the Axis of Evil up a notch.
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	MARGARET DRABBLE: 'The Witch of Exmoor' review - BETWEEN THE LINES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Witch Of Exmoor is Margaret Drabble's first novel in five years and is a complex web of matriarchy, class structure, power and powerlessness revenge, evolution, eccentricity, jealousy, torment and sibling rivalry, which is ironic, in that much has been made of the sibling rivalry between Drabble and her sister A.S. Byatt.
		Drabble, meanwhile, enjoys being the third party narrator and tightening the threads of the suffocating web that has been woven.
		In a recent interview, Drabble concluded that The Witch Of Exmoor was inspired by the decay of the self one faces with the advent of old age, and of delivering a matriarchal heroine who lacked the usual good qualities of being a mother, and one paragraph in particular highlights just that.
	www.thei.aust.com /isite/btl/btlrvdrabble.html (825 words)

	Margaret Drabble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Drabble is called Maggie by her friends, of which I am not one.
		Margaret Drabble is English, went to Cambridge, married an actor, had some children, divorced, remarried, and etcetera.
		Margaret Drabble's first books are very intimate, small in scope, personal and interesting.
	ezone.org /rag/drabble.html (238 words)

	The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like Drabble's other novels, this superb story shows signs of her fascination with connections--genetic, historical, and chance-met.
		Drabble develops the Halliwell-van Jost affair with charming tenderness.
		Though the crown princess's memoirs are recounted with grace and intelligence, and though the old professor's seduction of the strapping young lecturer is enjoyable, it is difficult for the reader ever to lose sight of the contrivance.
	www.metacritic.org /books/authors/drabblemargaret/redqueen (688 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Millstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother.
		In naturally flowing prose, Margaret Drabble paints a most human portrait of innocence and struggle for (emotional) survival, youth and adulthood and the mighty marks of religion (guilt) and 'unselfish' education.
		Drabble endows her main character with a fierce, albeit flawed, sense of individualism and self-sufficiency.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156006197?v=glance (1354 words)

	Margaret Drabble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Drabble (1939-), Malaspina Great Books: This attractive-looking site includes a brief biography plus Margaret Drabble "Research Links." The site appears to do much of the preliminary searching for the user, but most of the sites appear to be commercial in nature, as in where to find Drabble books for purchase.-MJM
		Margaret Drabble, BBC World Service: Includes the following sections: life events, key influences and themes, Drabble's work, style, the next chapter and being a woman writer.
		Margaret Drabble, Art and Culture Network: A visually interesting page that includes an assessment of Drabble's work plus a fine collection of annotated links.
	library.marist.edu /diglib/english/englishliterature/20thc-britauthors/drabble-margaret.htm (166 words)

	ttgapers.com store - The Witch of Exmoor - Margaret Drabble - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But her detached pauses, when she steps back and reminds you that she is a writer in control of the story with the ability to tell you what she wants to tell you--and not to tell you what she doesn't--is very postmodern.
		The book is a attempt at a genre novel, notably a gothic romance where the main character hides away in an isolated mansion and behaves in a somewhat crazy fashion, at least in the view of her family.
		Drabble writes in the fashion of a 19th century omniscient author who intrudes and comments on the action; to return to the fashions of long ago in this case is an experimental approach to the work.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0156006049.html (956 words)

	Joyce Carol Oates And Margaret Drabble Examine
		Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Drabble are not writers whom one ordinarily associates together, even though they are nearly the same age, respect one another's work and have been, for more than 35 years, distinctive voices--as writers and commentators--in the American and English literary scenes respectively.
		Drabble's novels, in contrast, have, for the most part, chronicled women's (and a few men's) lives, and her protagonists have aged along with their author.
		With humor, compassion and ironic detachment, Margaret Drabble has created a memorable portrait of an older woman who is constructing a new life with renewed energy and increased self-knowledge.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/oped/oates.shtml (1125 words)

	Unveiling Curses: Margaret Drabble's The Witch of Exmoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Drabble and her sister A. Byatt, whose novel The Shadow of the Sun inaugurated this column, are often referred to as the Brontë sisters of our time.
		Although Byatt aims to write novels steeped in realism, her characters often inhabit erudite realms, their dialogue peppered with literary and historical allusions that alienate some readers, who feel that such density detracts from the action, but attract others, who are intrigued by the rich intertextuality of the work.
		Since Drabble and Byatt's mother is dead, however, there is no danger of her retaliation upon reading how she has been depicted, unlike Byatt’s heroine in The Game, who commits suicide when she discovers how her life has been written up in a novel.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_literature/70759 (1433 words)

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