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Victoria Glendinning

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April 23, 1923 in Sheffield, The United Kingdom

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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was awarded a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature.

Glendinning read modern languages at Oxford and and worked as a teacher and social worker before becoming an editorial assistant for the Times Literary Supplement in 1974.

She has married three times, the second to Irish writer, lawyer and editor Terence de Vere White, who died of Parkinson's disease in 1994.

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Books by Victoria Glendinning

Average rating: 3.81 · 724 ratings · 104 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Vita 3.97 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1983 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Leonard Woolf: A Biography 4.09 avg rating — 68 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Electricity 3.36 avg rating — 50 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Anthony Trollope 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Elizabeth Bowen 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Rebecca West 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, Letters and Diaries 1941-1973 by Victoria Glendinning, Judith Robertson (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Flight 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Jonathan Swift 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Grown-Ups 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Victoria Glendinning

“….unable to find a title for her last published novel, she wrote six lines which included her eventual title The Birds Fall Down. These lines were attributed to Conway Power (the name she generally appended to her poetry, even in her private notebooks), from a non-existent poem called ‘Guide to a Disturbed Planet.’ When the novel was published she had fun deflecting the enquiries of readers who wanted to know how to find the works of Conway Power. One was told a long story: Conway Power was a landowner in a remote area who had written thousands of poems and destroyed most of them. He had left some of them with her, given his property to a nephew, and gone abroad. ‘If I can trace the book (if there is a book) I’ll let you know.”
― Victoria Glendinning, Rebecca West

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“Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of William Plomer's autobiography, At Home, in 1958, she told him that ‘only you seem to bring back Virginia's laughter - I get so bored and irked by the tragic fiction which has been manufactured about her since 1941.”
― Victoria Glendinning, Elizabeth Bowen

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