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Jan 1, 2001 · ‘Lady in the Van’ tells the unlikely and somewhat implausible although true story of the eponymous ‘lady’ Miss Shepherd, her various vans, other wheeled vehicles and how she ended up living for a number of years in Bennett’s driveway.
In 1970, writer Alan Bennett moves into a wealthy suburb of Camden. Soon after, he meets Miss Mary Shepherd, an irritable, eccentric, unsanitary, and religious homeless woman living in an old Bedford van, who squats outside multiple houses in Bennett's street of Gloucester Crescent.
Mar 18, 1999 · The Lady in the Van is about the playwright's divided life, for which all real experience is grist for the writerly mill. It's about living gay and closeted in suburbia (the suburbs of London) in an age when coming out could get you arrested.
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Dec 1, 2015 · Now a major motion picture starring Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett's famous and heartwarming story "The Lady in the Van," and more of Bennett's classic short-form work. Alan Bennett has long been one of the world's most revered humorists.
Jun 17, 2020 · English. 92 pages : 15 cm. Alan Bennet's most famous work of non-fiction. It is the history of Miss Shepherd, who in the 1970s lived in a Robin Reliant car opposite Bennett's house in Camden. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move to his driveway.
Sep 10, 2002 · In “The Lady in the Van,” which The Village Voice called “one of the finest bursts of comic writing the twentieth century has produced,” Bennett recounts the strange life of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who parked her van (overstuffed with decades’ worth of old clothes, oozing batteries, and kitchen utensils still in their original packagin...
