Biography EssayMargaret Drabble's rise as one of the most important and well-known British novelists writing today has been steady and sure. She has received serious attention in Great Britain since t...
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Since the 1970s Margaret Drabble has been the preeminent British woman of letters. Critics and admirers have compared her work to that of George Eliot and Jane Austen, and, indeed, Drabble's writings,...
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[This entry was updated by Nora Foster Stovel (University of Alberta) with the entry by Barbara C. Millard (La Salle University) in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. ...
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Margaret Drabble anticipated the feminist movement by writing early in her career about educated women's experiences of marriage and motherhood in conflict with career ambition. Her range has widened ...
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