Fiona MacCarthy’s Followers (38)

Fiona MacCarthy

Born

in Sutton, Surrey, England

January 23, 1940

Died

February 29, 2020

Website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_MacCarthy

Genre

Biography, History

edit data

Fiona MacCarthy was an English biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-Century art and design.

MacCarthy began her career on The Guardian in 1963 initially as an assistant to the women's editor Mary Stott. She was appointed as the newspaper's design correspondent, working as a features writer and columnist, sometimes using a pseudonymous byline to avoid two articles appearing in the same issue. She left The Guardian in 1969, briefly becoming women's editor of the London Evening Standard before settling in Sheffield.

She later became a biographer and critic. She came to wider attention as a biographer with a once-controversial study of the Roman Catholic craftsman and sculptor Eric Gill, first published i ...more

Combine Editions
Fiona MacCarthy’s books

Average rating: 4.08 · 1,849 ratings · 211 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Byron: Life and Legend 4.18 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination 4.24 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 4.07 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Morris: A Life for Our Time 4.22 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Curtsey 3.56 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eric Gill 3.63 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860 - 1960 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stanley Spencer: An English Vision 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All things bright and beautiful;: Design in Britain, 1830 to today 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Fiona MacCarthy…

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Bright Young Things: February 2013- Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson	29	38	Apr 13, 2013 11:27AM
Reading the 20th ...: Group Read -> Feb 2018 -> Nomination thread (A book set in, or about, the 1950s, won by Adrift in Soho by Colin Wilson)	41	40	Dec 17, 2017 10:44AM
Reading the 20th ...: Welcome to The Midnight Bell (a virtual pub and general discussion thread) (2020)	663	72	Dec 29, 2020 04:09AM
The Book Vipers: Dusty Shelf Book Lists	45	100	Jan 02, 2021 11:12AM

More…

Fiona MacCarthy’s Followers (38)

Fiona MacCarthy

Combine EditionsFiona MacCarthy’s books

Topics Mentioning This Author

Combine Editions
Fiona MacCarthy’s books