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Penelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher; 19 September 1918 – 19 October 1999) was a Welsh-born English journalist, biographer, and novelist. Her semi-autobiographical novel The Pumpkin Eater (1962) was made into a 1964 film of the same name.
Penelope Mortimer (born Sept. 19, 1918, Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales—died Oct. 19, 1999, London, Eng.) was a British journalist and novelist whose writing, depicting a nightmarish world of neuroses and broken marriages, influenced feminist fiction of the 1960s. After her graduation from the University of London, she began to write poetry, book ...
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Mar 25, 2014 · Jessica Ferri. In 1966 the writer Penelope Mortimer endured a painful sterilization operation that left her with a giant scar across her belly. She languished in a “home” recuperating from a ...
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Dec 2, 2018 · A profile of the British novelist Penelope Mortimer, who drew on her own experience for her fiction, and faced the challenges of being a woman writer in the public eye. Learn about her life, her books, and her controversial portrayal of her family in "Such a Super Evening".
May 11, 2022 · The protagonist of Penelope Mortimer’s 1958 novel, Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting, is a 37-year-old housewife named Ruth, who is sliding into a madness of midlife suffocation and despair.Alone in her ...
Apr 6, 2011 · Penelope Mortimer was born in North Wales on Sept. 19, 1918, the younger of two children of an eccentric clergyman father and a self-effacing, industrious mother.
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Apr 22, 2011 · Penelope Mortimer (1918-1999) was born in Ryhl, Wales, and wrote nine novels in addition to contributions to the New Yorker and The Sunday Times. hide caption. toggle caption Although abortion was ...
