Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June 1933) is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel...
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various London newspapers. He married fellow Cambridge graduate Claire Delavenay (Claire Tomalin) in 1955 and they had three daughters and two sons. In spite...
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Written by Abi Morgan, and based on the 1990 book of the same name by Claire Tomalin, the film is about the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and...
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the classic picture of Addison's disease remain poorly explained, as Claire Tomalin, with the medical endorsement of Dr. Eric Beck, Fellow of the UK Royal...
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Leeds: The Theatre Retrieved 17 December 2013 Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, pp. 37, 72. Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, p. 75. Philip H...
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early work. It is unlike any of Austen's other works. Austen biographer Claire Tomalin describes the novella's heroine as a sexual predator who uses her intelligence...
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Susanna; and Jenny, a television producer. Frayn and his second wife, Claire Tomalin, a biographer and literary journalist, live in Petersham, London. 1966:...
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self is a 2002 historical biography by Claire Tomalin. It charts the life of Samuel Pepys, a 17th-century English diarist...
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Co. 1885–1900. Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman, ISBN 9780241963258 p.53 Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman, p 72-73 Claire Tomalin, The Invisible...
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allegory of the Christian concept of redemption. Dickens's biographer, Claire Tomalin, sees the conversion of Scrooge as carrying the Christian message that...
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Fanny's limited morality had much to commend it. Austen biographer Claire Tomalin (1997) argues that Fanny rises to her moment of heroism when she rejects...
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the peak of his poetic achievement". In a 2007 biography on Hardy, Claire Tomalin argues that Hardy became a truly great English poet after the death...
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Davis 1998, p. 23. Callow 2009, p. 48 Tomalin 1992, p. 7 Tomalin 1992, p. 76 Patten 2001, pp. 16–18. Tomalin, Claire (2011). Charles Dickens: A Life. Penguin...
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Grace Nichols Philip Pullman Elif Shafak Kamila Shamsie Colm Tóibín Claire Tomalin Jenny Uglow Council Reza Vishka, Hon. Treasurer Louise Doughty Inua...
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Kingsley Amis described her as "morally detestable". Other critics, like Claire Tomalin, point out that she is a complex personality, perceptive yet given to...
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regarded as an obvious inspiration for the character of George Wickham by Claire Tomalin, who cites Henry and Wickham's inability to settle on a career or a...
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recent general study, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, is by Claire Tomalin. Tomalin's book won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year award, the judges...
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surname include: Claire Tomalin (born 1933), English author and journalist Doug Tomalin, (1914–1998), English diver Elisabeth Tomalin (1912–2012), British...
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back-to-back for later transmission, and appeared on ITVX during 2023. Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen. Page 261. "Sanditon". Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts...
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brother of Edward Austen's wife Elizabeth, in 1805, but biographer Claire Tomalin dismisses this claim. Jane Austen was primarily educated at home by...
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57: since 1963 the home of author Claire Tomalin and her husband journalist Nicholas Tomalin (and later, Claire's second husband Michael Frayn). No....
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"Secrecy and Sickness" Tomalin, Claire (1997). Jane Austen: A Life. New York: Random House. p. 155. ISBN 0-679-44628-1. Tomalin, Claire (1997). Jane Austen:...
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Archive. Tomalin 2006, pp. 210, 420. Tomalin 2006, p. 210. Tomalin 2006, pp. 207, 420. Tomalin 2006, p. 208. Tomalin 2006, pp. 147, 206. Tomalin 2006, p...
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General's wish to have everything ordered. According to Austen biographer Claire Tomalin, "there is very little trace of personal allusion in the book, although...
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care in 18th-century Britain by middle-class parents was described by Claire Tomalin in her biography of Jane Austen, who was fostered in the 1760s in this...
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that they were not seeking any part of the funds. Dickens's biographer Claire Tomalin said Charles Walter, only son of Dickens Jr., had been disowned by the...
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portraying a man whose real thoughts were almost always elsewhere. Claire Tomalin writing for Sight & Sound called the film "subtle, intelligent, moving...
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Invisible Woman, was an adaptation of the book of the same name by Claire Tomalin, about the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan...
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p. 29. ISBN 9781840225594. Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man (Penguin, 2007) pp. 30, 36. Tomalin, Claire (2007). Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn...
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radical departure" from Austen's earlier novels. Austen biographer Claire Tomalin characterizes the book as Austen's "present to herself, to Miss Sharp...
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