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Beryl Bainbridge

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Biography

Name: Beryl (Margaret) Bainbridge
Variant Name: Beryl Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret Bainbridge
Birth Date: November 21, 1933
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Female

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Biography of Beryl (Margaret) Bainbridge
9,436 words, approx. 32 pages
An entertaining and insightful observer of the human condition, Beryl Bainbridge is one of the most highly regarded fiction writers in Great Britain. She began her career with a series of blackly humorous, biting fictions depicting people of lowered...
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Biography of Beryl (Margaret) Bainbridge
7,990 words, approx. 27 pages
Having published ten novels in thirteen years, primarily to "tell her story," Beryl Bainbridge has good reason to view her literary career with satisfaction. An unassuming and deferential person, Bainbridge is a spartan writer whose wit, humor, and...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Beryl Bainbridge Information
503 words, approx. 2 pages
<b>Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE</b> (b. 21 November 1932, Liverpool) is an English novelist. She has been nominated for the Booker Prize several times, but has never won it. In spite of this, she has been described as one of the greatest living...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Punter
9,360 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Punter examines the presentation of psychological trauma in Bainbridge's novels and the struggles among her characters, particularly those who are female, to deal with both familial and cultural forces of alienation, deprivation, abuse, and rejection.
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Critical Essay by Elisabeth Wennö
2,747 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following excerpt, Wennö discusses Bainbridge's critical underestimation and argues that her novels, though regarded as conventional narratives, actually embody sophisticated distancing techniques that call into question the illusions and constructions of literary realism.
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Critical Review by Gail Pool
1,703 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following review, Pool offers tempered praise for Master Georgie, citing shortcomings in the novel's contrived events and characterizations.
 


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