Margaret Drabble

Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt (Shepherd College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

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Born 5 Jun 1939
Activity 1975-ongoing

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Margaret Drabble is oft given to have asserted: “I’d rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore” (qtd. in Bernard Bergonzi’s

The Situation of the Novel

65). Prolific author of 16 novels, hundreds of articles, short stories, and screen plays, critical studies of William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett, and Angus Wilson, editor of the

Oxford Companion to English Literature,

and author of

A Writer’s Britain: Landscape in Literature

and

For Queen and Country: Britain in the Victorian Age

, Drabble is in a position to know well the “tradition” which she is said to have inherited. Yet while she walks in the shadow of George Eliot, Henry James, and Thomas Hardy as she explores a range of moral issues and…

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Citation: Shurbutt, Sylvia Bailey. "Margaret Drabble". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 December 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1310, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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