biography
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Carlisle, Cumbria, NW England, UK. She studied at Oxford, and taught in a London school (1961–3) before becoming a writer. She has written several biographical works, such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1988), and many novels, including Georgy Girl (1965, filmed 1966), Fenella Phizackerley (1970), Mothers' Boys (1994), Shadow Baby (1996), and The Memory Box (1999). Later novels include Diary of an Ordinary Woman (2003). She was a member of the BBC Advisory Committee on Social Effects of Television (1975–7) and of the Arts Council Literary Panel (1978–81). She married Hunter Davies in 1960. |
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