The women who made TS Eliot
Accounts of the poet’s brutal rejections of Mary Trevelyan and Emily Hale shed light on a man obsessed by posterity and guilt.
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Accounts of the poet’s brutal rejections of Mary Trevelyan and Emily Hale shed light on a man obsessed by posterity and guilt.
By Margaret DrabbleWhen I was at university I passionately wanted to be an actor, and for some years struggled to find…
By Margaret DrabbleI felt I was entering the adult world.
By Margaret DrabbleErnaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.
By Margaret DrabbleJaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.
By Margaret DrabbleIt took me a long time to get to grips with Perec, but I'm glad I did.
By Margaret DrabbleIt is hard to characterise Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere – it is a discursive, rambling, global volume.
By Margaret DrabbleThe Story of the Lost Child is the final instalment in a literary phenomenon. But what does its elusive author really believe?
By Margaret DrabbleThe classic sci-fi novel is more than a ripping yarn – it anticipated the ecology movement and shaped the French avant-garde.
By Margaret Drabble