Margaret Drabble

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.

By Margaret Drabble

By Margaret Drabble

By Margaret Drabble

By Margaret Drabble

By Margaret Drabble

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When I was at university I passionately wanted to be an actor, and for some years struggled to find…

By Margaret Drabble

I felt I was entering the adult world.

By Margaret Drabble

Ernaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.

By Margaret Drabble

Jaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.

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It took me a long time to get to grips with Perec, but I'm glad I did.

By Margaret Drabble

It is hard to characterise Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere – it is a discursive, rambling, global volume.

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The Story of the Lost Child is the final instalment in a literary phenomenon. But what does its elusive author really believe?

By Margaret Drabble

The classic sci-fi novel is more than a ripping yarn – it anticipated the ecology movement and shaped the French avant-garde.

By Margaret Drabble