DREBBL Margaret

DREBBL, Margaret (Drabble, Margareth) (p. 1939), British novelist, critic and biographer. Born June 5, 1939 in Sheffield (Yorkshire). In 1960 she graduated with honors from Nyunt's College at Cambridge University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts.
M. Drebbl - younger sister of writer AS Byatt. Her first novel, "Aviary for birds" (1963) was devoted to the rivalry between two sisters, one of which is intellectual, a brilliant graduate of Oxford University, the other just a charming young woman, getting married.

The heroine of the next two novels Drebbl "Garrick Year" (1964, rus. per.: "One summer season) and" Millstone "(1965, released in the United States in 1966 under the title" Thank you very much ") - women as well lukavyaschie in his career and his family life, torn between the desire for inner freedom and maternal instincts.

After the next two novels Drebbl - "My Jerusalem of Gold" (1967) and "Waterfall" (1969) - Reviewers were divided into two 'camps'. Some read in it a romantic desire to find wholeness and harmony in love, others - sobriety and skepticism generated by emotional turmoil, the knowledge of how everything is unreliable and unstable. In the 1970's Drebbl wrote one after the other three novels: "Through the eye of a needle" (1972), "Zlata Worlds" (1975) and "Ice Age" (1977), which gives a wide panorama of contemporary English society.

The novel "area agreement" (1980) is devoted to 'middle age'. This was followed by a trilogy that focuses on - the fate of three women who met back in 1950, a student at Cambridge: Radiant Way (1987), "The natural curiosity" (1989) and "The Gates of Ivory" (1991).

The novel "The Witch of Exmoor (1996) - an example of the history of the drama of family relationships in the literature in recent years. Roman "Pepper moth" (2000) - a little belletrizovannaya history of the mother's life Drebbl M.. Drebbl also owns a book about Arnold Bennett (1974) and historical study of Victorian England - "In the name of Queen and country" (1979). In 1996 she released a biography of Angus Wilson

. In 1985, under the editorship of Drebbl came fifth edition of the prestigious Oxford dictionary of literary, while in 2000 - the sixth edition, supplemented by 660 new articles, including numerous articles written before and have been subjected to substantial revision.