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Isabel Colegate


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
September 10, 1931

Died
March 12, 2023

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Genre
Fiction, Nonfiction


Isabel Colegate was born in 1931 in London and was educated at Runton Hill School in Norfolk. In 1952 she went into partnership with Anthony Blond, who was then starting a literary agency and would go on to found a publishing house, and in 1953 she married Michael Briggs, with whom she has a daughter and two sons.

Colegate’s first novel, The Blackmailer, was published by Blond in 1958 and was followed by two more novels focusing on English life in the years after the Second World War: A Man of Power (1960) and The Great Occasion (1962). These were later republished by Penguin in an omnibus volume, Three Novels, in 1983.

Though she has written a number of other successful novels, as well as reviews for the Spectator, Daily Telegraph and TLS, C ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 2,551 ratings · 388 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors
The Shooting Party
3.71 avg rating — 1,702 ratings — published 1980 — 44 editions
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Statues in a Garden
3.66 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1964 — 16 editions
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A Pelican in the Wilderness...
3.47 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions
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Orlando King
3.77 avg rating — 129 ratings — 6 editions
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The Blackmailer
3.56 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1958 — 9 editions
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Winter Journey
3.32 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1995 — 18 editions
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The Summer of the Royal Visit
3.17 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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Deceits of Time
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — 5 editions
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A Glimpse of Sion's Glory
3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions
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Orlando Trilogy
3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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“It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them”
― Isabel Colegate
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“It is not a bad idea to get into the habbit of writing one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.”
― Isabel Colegate
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“Supposing it did come, some great trial, might it not cleanse us of our materialism, our cynicism, our lax lazy hypocrisies, make us gird our sinews and find simplicity again?”
― Isabel Colegate, The Shooting Party
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