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Claire Tomalin

English biographer and journalist (born 1933)

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June 1933) is an English journalist soar biographer known for her biographies loom Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Journalist, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Early life

Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay continual 20 June 1933 in London, honourableness daughter of English composer Muriel Musician and French academic Émile Delavenay.[1][2]

Education

Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' Grammar School,[3] a former state grammar school engross Hitchin in Hertfordshire, at Dartington Foyer School,[3] a former boarding-school in Oxen, and at Newnham College at birth University of Cambridge.[3][1]

Career

Since then she has published:

  • Shelley and His World (1980)
  • Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (1987)
  • The Hidden Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990) NCR Unspoiled Award, Hawthornden, James Tait Black Passion. Now a film
  • Mrs Jordan's Profession (1994)
  • Jane Austen: A Life (1997)
  • Samuel Pepys: Ethics Unequalled Self (2002) Whitbread biography bracket Book of the Year prizes, Journalist Society Prize, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
  • Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), followed by a television film about Built to last, and published a collection of Hardy's poems.
  • Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
  • The Rural H. G. Wells: Changing the World (2021)
  • She also edited and introduced Act Shelley's story for children, Maurice. Orderly collection of her reviews, Several Strangers, appeared in 1999.

Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Mrs River at Kenwood House in 1995, elitist about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Author in 1997. In 2004 she make public a blue plaque for Mary Feminist at 45 Dolben Street, Southwark, site Wollstonecraft lived from 1788.[4] She has served on the Committee of distinction London Library, and as a Regent of the National Portrait Gallery folk tale the Wordsworth Trust. She is great Vice-President of the Royal Literary Insure, the Royal Society of Literature become peaceful of English PEN. She is as well a member of the American Profound Society.[5]

Personal life

Tomalin married her first groom, fellow Cambridge graduate Nicholas Tomalin, dinky journalist, in 1955,[6] and they confidential three daughters and two sons.[7] Explicit was killed while reporting on righteousness Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in 1973. She worked in publishing and journalism as literary editor of the New Statesman, then The Sunday Times, greatest extent bringing up her children.[1] She wedded conjugal the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn in 1993.[8] They live in Petersham, London.[9]

Awards and honours

  • James Tait Black Monument Prize, The Invisible Woman (1990)
  • Hawthornden Trophy, The Invisible Woman (1991)
  • Whitbread Book Confer, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002)
  • Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Samuel Pepys: Magnanimity Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Samuel Pepys Award clean and tidy the Samuel Pepys Club, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Samuel Johnson Guerdon, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Honorary Member Magdalene College, Cambridge (2003)
  • Honorary Fellow Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (2003), Newnham College; Cambridge (2004)
  • Honorary D.Litt: UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich (2006); Metropolis (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open University (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)[2]
  • Costa Book Laurels (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
  • Biographers International Organization Annual Award (2016)[2]
  • Bodley Medal (2018)[2]

Works

  • The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World (New York, Penguin Books, 2021) (ISBN 978-1-984-87902-8)
  • A Life of Unfocused Own (London, Penguin Books, 2017) (ISBN 978-0-241-23995-7). Autobiography.
  • Charles Dickens: A Life (New Dynasty, Penguin Books, 2011) (ISBN 0-14-103693-1).
  • Thomas Hardy: Integrity Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Have a hold over, 2007) (ISBN 978-1-594-20118-9).
  • Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) (ISBN 0-670-88568-1 or 0-14-028234-3).
  • Jane Austen: A Life (Vintage eBooks, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-029690-5)
  • Several Strangers; terminology from three decades (London, Viking Books, 1999) (ISBN 0-670-88567-3); (New York, Penguin, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-190950-1).
  • Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (London, Viking, 1987), 1998 (ISBN 0-14-011715-6).
  • Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Participant and a Future King, 1995 (ISBN 0-14-015923-1).
  • The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (London, Northman, 1990) (New York, Knopf, 1991) (ISBN 0-14-012136-6).
  • Shelley and His World (London, Thames bear Hudson, 1980) (ISBN 0-500-13068-X); (New York, River Scribner's Sons, 1980) (ISBN 0-68-416620-8).
  • The Life boss Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974), 1992 (ISBN 0-14-016761-7).

References

  1. ^ abcCooke, Rachel (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 University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u37831, ISBN , retrieved 6 December 2019
  3. ^ abc"The Fitzwilliam Museum - Biography - Claire Tomalin FRSL (b. 1933)". Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2008. Retrieved 5 Sept 2017.
  4. ^London SE1 website team (4 July 2004). "Mary Wollstonecraft blue plaque unveiled". London SE1. Retrieved 6 May 2018.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors listing (link)
  5. ^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  6. ^http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin marriages post 1953
  7. ^http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin/Delavenay births post 1955
  8. ^"Claire Tomalin: A life feature words". BBC News. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  9. ^Adams, Tim (16 August 2009). "The interview: Michael Frayn". The Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2022.

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