Victoria Glendinning
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Hon Victoria Glendinning CBE (23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was awarded a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature.
She was born in Sheffield [1] as the daughter of Baron Seebohm. Glendenning grew up near York and went to the University of Oxford to study modern languages. In the second year of her degree, she married one of her Spanish lecturers, Professor Nigel Glendinning in 1958,[2]but they divorced in 1981. Her second husband Terence de Vere White died in 1994 and she remarried in 1996. She had four sons (before she was 25) including Matthew Glendinning, with whom she coauthored the book Sons and Mothers, and the mathematician Paul Glendinning.
[edit] Books
- A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter, 1969, Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, 1977, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, 1981, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West, 1983, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Rebecca West: A Life, 1987, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- The Grown-Ups, 1989, Hutchinson
- Trollope, 1992, Hutchinson
- Electricity, 1995, Hutchinson
- Sons and Mothers, (co-editor with Matthew Glendinning) 1996, Virago
- Jonathan Swift, 1998, Hutchinson
- The Weekenders, (contributor), 2001, Ebury
- Flight, 2002, Scribner
- Leonard Woolf, 2006, Simon & Schuster
- Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West (Victora Glendinning wrote the Afterword) [3]
[edit] References
- ^ Niall Stanage, "Confessions of a storyteller" - interview with Victoria Glendinning, 'The Sunday Business Post, July 21, 2002 [1]
- ^ GLENDINNING, Hon. Victoria, (Hon. Mrs O'Sullivan), Who's Who, A & C Black, January 2007
- ^ Detail from a copy of the book published by Macmillan (London)in 1985
