biography
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Renault, Mary
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pseudonym of Eileen Mary Challans
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pronunciation:
[renoh]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1905–83)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Forest Gate, London, UK. She was educated in Bristol and at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Her first novel, Purposes of Love (1939), was a frank account of heterosexuality and lesbianism. In 1948 she emigrated to South Africa where she wrote The Charioteer (1953), a serious study of homosexual love. The theme was continued in the Last of the Wine (1956), the first of eight accounts of life in Ancient Greece. She also wrote a novel about Alexander the Great, The Nature of Alexander (1975). She was a president of the PEN Club of South Africa. |
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