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.
Novels
A Summer Bird Cage (1962)
The Garrick Year (1964)
The Millstone (1965)
aka Thank You All Very Much
Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
The Waterfall (1969)
The Needle's Eye (1972)
The Realms of Gold (1975)
The Ice Age (1977)
The Middle Ground (1980)
The Witch of Exmoor (1996)
The Peppered Moth (2001)
The Seven Sisters (2002)
The Red Queen (2004)
The Sea Lady (2006)
The Pure Gold Baby (2013)
The Garrick Year (1964)
The Millstone (1965)
aka Thank You All Very Much
Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
The Waterfall (1969)
The Needle's Eye (1972)
The Realms of Gold (1975)
The Ice Age (1977)
The Middle Ground (1980)
The Witch of Exmoor (1996)
The Peppered Moth (2001)
The Seven Sisters (2002)
The Red Queen (2004)
The Sea Lady (2006)
The Pure Gold Baby (2013)
Collections
Non fiction
Arnold Bennett: A Biography (1974) (see Arnold Bennett)
For Queen and Country: Britain in the Victorian Age (1978)
A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature (1979)
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985)
Safe As Houses (1990)
Angus Wilson: A Biography (1995) (see Angus Wilson)
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (1996) (with Jenny Stringer)
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (2009)
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (2012)
For Queen and Country: Britain in the Victorian Age (1978)
A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature (1979)
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985)
Safe As Houses (1990)
Angus Wilson: A Biography (1995) (see Angus Wilson)
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (1996) (with Jenny Stringer)
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (2009)
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (2012)
Anthologies containing stories by Margaret Drabble
Short stories
| The Gifts of War |
Books about Margaret Drabble
Four British Women Novelists: Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym (1998) by George Soule
Margaret Drabble recommends
 The Echoing Grove (1953) Rosamond Lehmann "Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love." |  Eva Trout: or, Changing Scenes (1968) Elizabeth Bowen "Miss Bowen is magnificent when she writes about conspiracy, duplicity and ambiguity, and her achievement is extremely impressive." |  Gentleman and Ladies (1968) Susan Hill "She has the gift of writing books that one has to read compulsively to the end." |
 The Juniper Tree (1985) Barbara Comyns "Resonant, challenging, memorable." |  Pilcrow (2006) (John Cromer, book 1) Adam Mars-Jones "One of the most remarkable novels I have read in recent years." |  Unexpected Lessons in Love (2013) Bernardine Bishop "Frank, courageous and entertaining. I felt better for reading it." |
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