Life and Career of Margaret Drabble

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This paper is a brief discussion of the life and career of modern British author Margaret Drabble. Her childhood relationships with her mother and siblings, education, marriage and children as well as her career and writing style are surveyed. Her relationships with her mother and sisters are discussed in relationship to her writing and the relevance they have had on her career.

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"British author Margaret Drabble has written numerous well-loved novels in the last 66 years of her life. She has won awards for her outstanding writing, and has been internationally recognized as a writer and critic. More than just "women's novels," Drabble's work focuses on interpersonal dynamics and relationships that are drawn from her own experiences of life and work. Much of Drabble's work is especially related to her femininity and experiences as a woman, especially those of wife, daughter and mother. As she herself said, "I suppose I am obsessed by the woman's role as mother and I think perhaps my mother very heavily influenced me, not always in a very happy way". The realism of these common themes in her books is extremely interesting to other women."

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