# Margaret Drabble
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Dame margaret drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic.
== Early life ==
Drabble was born in Sheffield, the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie (née Bloor). Her older sister is the novelist and critic Dame Antonia Byatt; the youngest sister is the art historian Helen Langdon, and their brother, Richard Drabble, is a QC.
After attending the Quaker boarding-school Mount School at York, where her mother was employed, Drabble received a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English.
Mark Gatiss at the RSC and novelist Margaret Drabble
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Alice Lowe and Andrew Hunter Murray
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Publisher: Persephone
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
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Shirley Williams and Margaret Drabble
Politician Shirley Williams and novelist Margaret Drabble join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Winifred Holtby, Mary McCarthy and James Joyce.
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Publisher: Virago
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Publisher: Virago
Dubliners by James Joyce
Publisher:…
466: Margaret Drabble in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Charlotte Metcalf talks to the multiple-award winning writer Margaret Drabble about her books, her upbringing, her early life in theatre and her new book, The Great Good Places and discovers why she will never write another novel nor be publishing her long memoir during her lifetime.
Margaret Drabble: The Great Good Places
Margaret Drabble’s new collection, The Great Good Places, is an omnium gatherum of essays, stories and memoir, drawing on a lifetime’s worth of insight and wisdom. ‘Generous, perceptive, and good-humoured, Margaret Drabble is always a delight to read’, wrote Joan Bakewell; The Great Good Places has…
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