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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Life. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. ISBN 978-0-231-12184-2. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Rev. ed. 1974. New York:...
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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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    Biography (Thames & Hudson, 1961) Michael Slater, Charles Dickens (Yale University Press, 2009) Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens. A Life (Viking, 2011)...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-160634-2. 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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  • 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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    Grace Nichols Philip Pullman Elif Shafak Kamila Shamsie Colm Tóibín Claire Tomalin Jenny Uglow Council Colin Chisholm, Hon. Treasurer Imtiaz Dharker Louise...
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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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    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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    the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn (now married to biographer Claire Tomalin). They attended The Harrodian School at Barnes, south-west London. JacksGap...
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    artistic and literary figures, including Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, Claire Tomalin, Karel Reisz, Deborah Moggach and Michael Frayn. This literary environment...
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    sources "London", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Peter Ackroyd, Claire Tomalin and Iain Sinclair (28 September 2000) Geographic data related to London...
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    memory by which to judge the troubled present." Hardy's 2006 biographer Claire Tomalin praised Hardy for the beauty and precision of his descriptive writing...
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    Alison (1996),Britain's Royal Families, Random House:London. p304. Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, Penguin 1994 (2012), p. 315 Ziegler, p. 270...
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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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