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Drabble, Margaret

(born June 5, 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Eng.) British novelist. She graduated from the University of Cambridge. Her novels include The Realms of Gold (1975), The Radiant Way (1987), The Gates of Ivory (1991), The Peppered Moth (2000), and The Sea Lady (2007). She has also written literary biographies (like her husband, Michael Holroyd) and other literary studies and has edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature. The writer A.S. Byatt is her sister.

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PHIL DRABBLE ; 'One Man and His Dog' presenter
Aug 01, 2007; A countryman through and through, the writer and naturalist Phil Drabble shared his love of nature and rural ways in dozens of...
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Margaret Drabble and the `Bad Time'
May 17, 1992; The Gates of Ivory By Margaret Drabble. Viking. $22. In this new novel Margaret Drabble completes the trilogy begun in 1987 with...
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Margaret Drabble's laptop stolen from Kensington home.
Jun 11, 2002; MARGARET DRABBLE, one of Britain's foremost novelists, has become the latest victim of crime in a curious case of life imitating...
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MEMOIR Jane Shilling watches Margaret Drabble take a selection of disparate pieces and fit them together to compose a life The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws By Margaret Drabble ATLANTIC, pounds 18.99, 350 pp
Apr 19, 2009; There ought to be a word for this genre: the oblique memoir, in which shards of the author's personal life are revealed through...
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Phil 'One Man And His Dog' Drabble leaves [pounds sterling]1m fortune to the secretary he loved like a daughter; 1.INHERITANCE: Ruth Froggatt and Goat Lodge, left to her by Mr Drabble 2.CULT FOLLOWING: Phil Drabble in his days presenting the BBC2 series.
May 25, 2008; Byline: Rhodri Phillips THE presenter of cult TV programme One Man And His Dog has left the bulkof his [pounds sterling]1million...
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