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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.
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Mar 25, 2014 · 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 severe depression.
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Oct 23, 1999 · Penelope Mortimer, an English author who drew on her complex and often turbulent relationships with men in writing novels like ''The Pumpkin Eater'' and a heatedly debated account of the romantic...
May 11, 2022 · Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent.
Dec 2, 2018 · The story of British novelist Penelope Mortimer is, in part, the all too familiar tale of a woman writer plagued by her readership’s inability to separate the life from the art.
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Apr 6, 2011 · The Pumpkin Eater is Penelope Mortimer’s seventh novel; during her lifetime it was the most widely known and best received of her books. Through the scrim of fiction, it depicts her...
