Angela Lambert
Angela Lambert | |
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Born | Angela Maria Helps 14 April 1940 |
Died | 26 September 2007 | (aged 67)
Language | English |
Education | Wispers School St Hilda's College |
Period | 1969–2006 |
Spouse |
Martin Lambert (m. 1962–1967) |
Partner | Tony Price |
Children | 3 |
Angela Maria Lambert (
Biography
Lambert was born Angela Maria Helps to an English civil servant and a German-born housewife. She was unhappy when sent to Wispers School, a girls' boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics.
In 1962, she married Martin Lambert, they had a son and a daughter, and the union ended five years later, when he left her with two young children to support. Later she also had another daughter with the Hungarian-born writer Stephen Vizinczey.[2]
She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working for ITN before joining The Independent newspaper in 1988.
Lambert suffered multiple immune disorders and
Works
Novels
- Love Among the Single Classes (1989)
- No Talking After Lights (1990)
- A Rather English Marriage (1992)
- The Constant Mistress (1994)
- Kiss and Kin (1997)
- Golden Lads and Girls (1999)
- The Property of Rain (2001)
Non-fiction
- Unquiet Souls: A Social History of the Illustrious, Irreverent, Intimate Group of British Aristocrats Known As "the Souls" (1987)
- 1939: The Last Season of Peace (1989)
- The Lost Life of Eva Braun (2006)
References
- ^ Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 12 July 2012
- ^ "Angela Lambert at telegraph", The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 July 2012