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Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was born in Liverpool's Allerton suburb on 21 November 1932, [5] the daughter of Winifred Baines and Richard Bainbridge. She grew up in the nearby town of Formby . Although she often gave her date of birth as 21 November 1934, she was born in 1932 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of 1933. [ 6 ]
According to Queeney is a 2001 Booker-longlisted [1] biographical novel by English writer Beryl Bainbridge.It concerns the last years of Samuel Johnson and his relationship between Hester Thrale and her daughter 'Queeney'.
The Birthday Boys is a novel by Beryl Bainbridge. First published in 1991, this book tells the story of Captain Robert Scott's 1910-13 expedition to Antarctica. [1]
The Dressmaker (US title The Secret Glass) is a gothic psychological novel written by Beryl Bainbridge. In 1973, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Like many of Bainbridge's earlier works, the novel is semi-autobiographical. In particular, the story was inspired by a relationship that she had with a soldier as a teenager.
An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI ...
Harriet Said... was the first novel written by Beryl Bainbridge, based on newspaper reports about the Parker–Hulme murder case in New Zealand which involved two young girls. [1] Although completed in 1958 [2] it was rejected by several publishers in the late fifties, and one of the rejections is quoted on the flyleaf of the first edition:
A painting bought at a garage sale in Minnesota is a previously unknown portrait by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, according to a newly published expert analysis.. It was made by Van Gogh during ...
Every Man for Himself is a 1996 novel by Beryl Bainbridge about the 1912 RMS Titanic disaster. The novel won the 1996 Whitbread Prize , and was a nominee of the Booker Prize . [ 1 ] It also won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Europe and South Asia) .