Sara Maitland
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Sara Maitland | |
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| Born | Sarah Louise Maitland 27 February 1950 London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Writer of saints, lives of women, mythology, fairy tales |
| Notable works | Daughter of Jerusalem, "True North"/"Far North" (short story), A Big Enough God, A Book of Silence |
| Notable awards | Somerset Maugham Award (1979) – Daughter of Jerusalem Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize (nomination, 2009) – A Book of Silence BBC National Short Story Award (runner up, 2009) – "Moss Witch" |
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Sara Maitland (born 27 February 1950) is a British writer of religious fantasy. A novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Her work has a
Life and career
Sarah (later "Sara") Louise Maitland[1] was born in London as the second of six children of Adam Maitland of Cumstoun House, Kirkcudbright, (a descendant of the judge Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan)[2] and Hope Baillie Maitland (née Fraser-Campbell). Adam Maitland's mother, Cecil Louise, was from the Scottish family of Mackenzie of Portmore descending from Colin Mackenzie of Portmore, friend of Walter Scott.[3][4] Maitland has described her upper-class London family[5] as "very open and noisy".[6] In her childhood she went to school in a small Wiltshire town[7] and attended St Mary's, a girls' boarding school in Calne, from the age of 12 until her admission to university. Maitland thought this school a terrible place and became very excitable.[8]
Growing up, Maitland developed a wild reputation: in 1966 she scandalised one of her brothers by winning a foot race in a very short cotton dress.
She has been absorbed in religion since 1972. From 1972 to 1993 she was married to an
She has two adult children: actress Polly Lee and photographer Adam Lee, who took the cover photograph for A Book of Silence.
Maitland's 2003 collection of short stories, On Becoming a Fairy Godmother, is a fictional celebration of the
Bibliography
Novels
- Daughter of Jerusalem, 1978 (winner of Somerset Maugham Award 1979)
- also published as The Languages of Love
- Virgin Territory, 1984
- Arky Types, 1987 (with Michelene Wandor)
- Three Times Table, 1991
- Home Truths, 1993
- published as Ancestral Truths in the United States
- Hagiographies, 1998
- Brittle Joys, 1999
Short story collections
- Telling Tales, 1983
- A Book of Spells, 1987
- Women Fly When Men Aren't Watching, 1992
- Angel and Me (for Holy Week), 1996
- On Becoming A Fairy Godmother, Maia, 2003
- Far North & Other Dark Tales, 2008
- Moss Witch, 2013
Non-fiction
- A Map of the New Country: Women and Christianity, 1983
- Vesta Tilley, Virago, 1986
- A Big-Enough God: Artful Theology, Mowbray, 1994
- Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings (with Wendy Mulford), 1998
- Novel Thoughts: Religious Fiction in Contemporary Culture, Erasmus Institute, 1999
- Awesome God: Creation, Commitment and Joy, SPCK, 2002
- The Write Guide (with Martin Goodman), New Writing North, 2007
- Stations of the Cross (with Chris Gollon), 2009
- A Book of Silence, Granta, 2008 (hardcover); 2009 (paperback)
- ISBN 9781847084293), Granta, 2012
- How to Be Alone, in The School of Life series (ISBN 9780230768086), Picador, 2014
As editor
- Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s, 1988
- The Rushdie File, 1990 (with Lisa Appignanesi)
Notes
- Sage, Lorna, ed. (1999). "Sara Maitland". The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 414. ISBN 9780521668132.
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References
- ^ Genealogies of Kentucky Families- From the Filson Club History Quarterly, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981, p. 419
- ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 19th edition, vol. 1, The Kingdom of Scotland, ed. Peter Beauclerk Dewar, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2001, p. 884
- ^ Genealogies of Kentucky Families- From the Filson Club History Quarterly, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981, p. 419
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1219
- ^ Roberts, Michele (14 November 2008). "A Book of Silence, By Sara Maitland". The Independent (Review). Archived from the original on 11 June 2009.
- ^ Maitland, Sara; The Swans
- ISBN 0-86068-958-1
- ^ Maitland; Very Heaven; p. 4.
- ^ Maitland; Very Heaven; p. 5.
- ^ Brenning, Jana
- ^ Hoffman, Matthew; "The Bill Clinton We Knew at Oxford: Apart from smoking dope (and not inhaling), what else did he learn over here? College friends share their memories with Matthew Hoffman"; in The Independent, 11 October 1992.
- ^ "Clinton's London Affair Just SAX"; in Los Angeles Times, 4 July 1993; p. 24.
- ^ The Independent on Sunday, 18 March 2007.
- ^ Brown, Andrew; "Church Group Reported for Sex Bias", in The Independent, 9 April 1993.
- ^ "About Sara". Archived from the original on 11 September 2012.
- ^ Sara Maitland: A Very Unlikely Modern Hermit, The Independent.
- ^ "All quiet on the western front". www.scotsman.com.
