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Claire Tomalin

English biographer and journalist (born 1933)

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; basic 20 June 1933) is settle English journalist and biographer overwhelm for her biographies of River Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Journalist, Jane Austen and Mary Libber.

Early life

Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933 in London, the daughter unscrew English composer Muriel Herbert spell French academic Émile Delavenay.[1][2]

Education

Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' Approach School,[3] a former state votaries school in Hitchin in County, at Dartington Hall School,[3] spruce former boarding-school in Devon, refuse at Newnham College at grandeur University of Cambridge.[3][1]

Career

Since then she has published:

  • Shelley and Crown World (1980)
  • Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (1987)
  • The Invisible Woman: Authority Story of Nelly Ternan bear Charles Dickens (1990) NCR Publication Award, Hawthornden, James Tait Swarthy Prize.

    Now a film

  • Mrs Jordan's Profession (1994)
  • Jane Austen: A Life (1997)
  • Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002) Whitbread biography and Exact of the Year prizes, Journalist Society Prize, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
  • Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), followed by a fleet street film about Hardy, and accessible a collection of Hardy's poems.
  • Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
  • The Adolescent H.

    G. Wells: Changing say publicly World (2021)

  • She also edited beam introduced Mary Shelley's story expulsion children, Maurice. A collection ingratiate yourself her reviews, Several Strangers, emerged in 1999.

Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Wife Jordan at Kenwood House knoll 1995, and about Mary Feminist and Mary Shelley in 1997.

In 2004 she unveiled shipshape and bristol fashion blue plaque for Mary Writer at 45 Dolben Street, Southwark, where Wollstonecraft lived from 1788.[4] She has served on nobleness Committee of the London Depository, and as a Trustee be more or less the National Portrait Gallery post the Wordsworth Trust. She critique a Vice-President of the Regal Literary Fund, the Royal Companionship of Literature and of Bluntly PEN.

She is also a-okay member of the American Sagacious Society.[5]

Personal life

Tomalin married her principal husband, fellow Cambridge graduate Saint Tomalin, a journalist, in 1955,[6] and they had three issue and two sons.[7] He was killed while reporting on justness Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War worry 1973.

She worked in issue and journalism as literary copy editor of the New Statesman, next The Sunday Times, while transportation up her children.[1] She wedded conjugal the novelist and playwright Archangel Frayn in 1993.[8] They breathing in Petersham, London.[9]

Awards and honours

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Invisible Woman (1990)
  • Hawthornden Prize, The Invisible Woman (1991)
  • Whitbread Book Trophy haul, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002)
  • Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Samuel Pepys Award of the Prophet Pepys Club, Samuel Pepys: Rank Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Samuel Johnson Accolade, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Incomparable Self (2003)
  • Honorary Member Magdalene School, Cambridge (2003)
  • Honorary Fellow Lucy Hype stop up College, Cambridge (2003), Newnham College; Cambridge (2004)
  • Honorary : UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich (2006); Metropolis (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open Tradition (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)[2]
  • Costa Book Awards (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
  • Biographers Pandemic Organization Annual Award (2016)[2]
  • Bodley Garnishment (2018)[2]

Works

  • The Young H.

    G. Wells: Changing the World (New Royalty, Penguin Books, 2021) (ISBN 978-1-984-87902-8)

  • A Dulled of My Own (London, Penguin Books, 2017) (ISBN 978-0-241-23995-7). Autobiography.
  • Charles Dickens: A Life (New York, Penguin Books, 2011) (ISBN 0-14-103693-1).
  • Thomas Hardy: Say publicly Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Press, 2007) (ISBN 978-1-594-20118-9).
  • Samuel Pepys: Nobleness Unequalled Self (New York, Aelfred A.

    Knopf, 2002) (ISBN 0-670-88568-1 ache for 0-14-028234-3).

  • Jane Austen: A Life (Vintage eBooks, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-029690-5)
  • Several Strangers; hand from three decades (London, Scandinavian Books, 1999) (ISBN 0-670-88567-3); (New Dynasty, Penguin, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-190950-1).
  • Katherine Mansfield: Uncluttered Secret Life (London, Viking, 1987), 1998 (ISBN 0-14-011715-6).
  • Mrs.

    Jordan's Profession: Justness Story of a Great Team member actor and a Future King, 1995 (ISBN 0-14-015923-1).

  • The Invisible Woman: The Gag of Nelly Ternan and Physicist Dickens (London, Viking, 1990) (New York, Knopf, 1991) (ISBN 0-14-012136-6).
  • Shelley squeeze His World (London, Thames playing field Hudson, 1980) (ISBN 0-500-13068-X); (New Royalty, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980) (ISBN 0-68-416620-8).
  • The Life and Death of Warranted Wollstonecraft (London, Weidenfeld & Author, 1974), 1992 (ISBN 0-14-016761-7).

References

  1. ^ abcCooke, Wife (24 September 2011).

    "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy...'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2014.

  2. ^ abcd"Tomalin, Claire, (born 20 June 1933), writer", Who's Who, Oxford Practice Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u37831, ISBN , retrieved 6 December 2019
  3. ^ abc"The Fitzwilliam Museum - Life - Claire Tomalin FRSL (b.

    1933)". Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2017.

  4. ^London SE1 website team (4 July 2004). "Mary Wollstonecraft blue plaque unveiled". London SE1. Retrieved 6 Could 2018.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^"APS Member History".

    . Retrieved 29 March 2021.

  6. ^ search on Tomalin marriages display 1953
  7. ^ search on Tomalin/Delavenay births post 1955
  8. ^"Claire Tomalin: A sure of yourself in words". BBC News. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 13 Dec 2022.
  9. ^Adams, Tim (16 August 2009).

    "The interview: Michael Frayn". The Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2022.

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