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Margaret Drabble

UK  (1939 - )
(Sister of Antonia S Byatt)
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About Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at the Mount School, York, and Newnham College, Cambridge. She is a novelist and critic, and editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and they divide their time between London and Somerset.
 
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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

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