Sue Limb

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Margaret Susan Limb (born 1946) is a British writer and broadcaster.

Biography

Limb was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.[1] Her family moved to Cheltenham where her father worked at GCHQ. Educated at Pate's Grammar School in Cheltenham, she studied Elizabethan lyric poetry at Newnham College, Cambridge and then trained in education.[2]

While her first published book was a biography of the Antarctic explorer Captain

ITV television.[5][6]

For Radio 4, she has written a number of comedy series (which pay unusual attention to music and sound effects): The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (a pastiche of the poet William Wordsworth and his circle at Grasmere, two series), The Sit Crom (set in the English Civil War), Four Joneses and a Jenkins (a reference to Four Weddings and a Funeral); Alison and Maud; and most recently Gloomsbury, "a rhapsody about bohemians", about members of the Bloomsbury Group and starring Miriam Margolyes and Alison Steadman.

Other works include Growing Pains (a documentary about ageing), Hilaire Belloc, Cities (six programmes of literary anthology).[7] and the introduction to her Newnham contemporary Valerie Grosvenor Myer's biography of Harriette Wilson.

Under the name Dulcie Domum, Limb wrote Bad Housekeeping, a humorous weekly column in The Guardian's Weekend section between 1988[8] and 2001.[9] Collections of the columns, a feminist novelist's diaries of a rural idyll gone wrong, were published in book form. The books, reissued by Solidus Press in 2002, are listed below.

In 1989, as Dulcie Domum, she coined the term "bonkbuster", which is a play on

portmanteau, defining it as "a type of popular novel characterized by frequent explicit sexual encounters between the characters."[10] Limb commented on the honour, "It's an unexpected event. People keep telling me I've made my place in history, so I can die happily now."[11]

Personal life

Limb was briefly married in 1970, being the first of the five wives of the historian, Professor Roy Porter.[12] She was married to Jan Vriend, a Dutch classical musician, from 1985 to 1989.[2]

She lives on a remote organic farm near Nailsworth in Gloucestershire.[13]

In the 1989 European Parliament election she was the Green Party candidate for the Cotswolds constituency.

Works

References

  1. . Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Dulcie swaps by-lines for an online existence". Stroud News. 3 October 2001. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  3. ^ BBC Media Centre - Up The Garden Path Accessed 2016-10-29.
  4. ^ BBC Radio Four Extra - Up The Garden Path Accessed 2016-10-29.
  5. ^ IMDB - Up The Garden Path Accessed 2016-10-29.
  6. ^ ITV Studios - Up The Garden Path Accessed 2016-10-29.
  7. ^ Biography at Sue Limb's website (undated). Accessed: 2007-09-01,
  8. ^ The Guardian, 27 November 2004.Accessed: 2007-09-01.
  9. ^ Bloomsbury Press Archived 10 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 2007-09-01.
  10. ^ The Telegraph, 18 February 2002[dead link] Accessed 2007-11-11.
  11. ^ Sydney Morning Herald, 19 June 2002 Accessed 2007-11-11.
  12. ^ "Limb, Sue 1946- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  13. ^ Bloomsbury.Domain.Store.Site. "Sue Limb: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)". www.bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 15 February 2023.

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