Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Glendinning
Early life and education
She was born in
Her sister is Caroline Seebohm, an American biographer.
Glendinning grew up near York and, after being privately educated at Millfield School in Somerset, went up to Somerville College, Oxford, to read Modern Languages.
Awards and honours
She is the only person to have won the
She was appointed
Marriages and children
In the second year of her degree course, she married one of her Spanish lecturers, Nigel Glendinning, in 1958.[4] They divorced in 1981. Her second husband Terence de Vere White, father of Dervla Murphy's only child, died of Parkinson's disease in 1994. In 1996, she married Kevin O'Sullivan, who had previously been married to Shirley Conran.[5] She had four sons before she was 28: sportswriter Matthew Glendinning, with whom she coauthored the book Sons and Mothers; mathematician Paul Glendinning; philosopher Simon Glendinning; and photographer and artist Hugo Glendinning. She sent her children to the local state school.[2]
Selected publications
- A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter, 1969, Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, 1977, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Elizabeth Bowen)
- Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, 1981, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Edith Sitwell)
- Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West, 1983, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Vita Sackville-West)
- Rebecca West: A Life, 1987, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (on Rebecca West)
- The Grown-Ups, 1989, Hutchinson (a novel set in the contemporary literary world)
- Trollope, 1992, Hutchinson (a biography of Anthony Trollope)
- Electricity, 1995, Hutchinson (a novel)
- Sons and Mothers (co-editor with Matthew Glendinning) 1996, Virago, ISBN 1860492541
- Jonathan Swift, 1998, Hutchinson (on Jonathan Swift)
- The Weekenders (contributor), 2001, Ebury (from a short visit to Sudan)
- Flight, 2002, Scribner
- Leonard Woolf: a biography, 2006, Simon & Schuster (on Leonard Woolf)
- Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West (Victoria Glendinning wrote the Afterword)[6]
- Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries, 1941–1973 (co-editor with Judith Robertson) 2009, Simon & Schuster (on Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie
- Raffles and the Golden Opportunity, 2012, Profile Books Ltd (a biography of Stamford Raffles 1781–1826)
- The Butcher's Daughter, 2018, Duckworth Overlook (a novel centred on the dissolution of Shaftesbury Abbey in the 1530s)
- John Lewis: How the partnership grew out of poverty, violence and a family feud, 2021, William Collins
Critical studies and reviews
- Madden, Paul (April 2013). "Raffles' prize". Australian Book Review. 350: 46. Review of Raffles and the golden opportunity.
References
- ^ Stanage, Niall (21 July 2002), "Confessions of a storyteller" – interview with Victoria Glendinning, The Sunday Business Post. Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Attallah, Naim (13 March 2015). "Victoria Glendinning". Naim Attallah Online. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Eight honoured by University of York". www.york.ac.uk. 3 July 2000. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ Glendinning, Hon. Victoria (Hon. Mrs O'Sullivan), Who's Who, A & C Black, January 2007.
- ^ Johnson, Susan (18 August 2007). "The lady vanishes". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Detail from a copy of the book published by Macmillan (London) in 1985.