Margaret Drabble Summary

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... Read more

[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. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Patricia Sharpe Drabble's novels, particularly their conclusions, are structured to expose the narrowness and inadequacy of … moral judgments by upsetting our expectati... Read more

Critical Essay by Frank Granville Barker Clearly we are meant to take The Ice Age seriously, not as a diversion, and readers must indeed be prepared for a good deal of moralising as they follow the ad... Read more

Critical Essay by Maureen Howard The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble has an authority about it that is new to her work. In Realms of Gold she began to assume that the large designs of the English novel we... Read more

Critical Essay by Walter Allen [A Summer Bird-Cage] is told by Sarah Bennett, just down from Oxford, working at the BBC…. Her ambition—to write a novel as good as Lucky Jim—is its... Read more

Critical Essay by Joan Manheimer The novels of Margaret Drabble tell an old story, the struggle of the individual toward identity, and her version of the tale is extreme. Her heroines suffer confusion... Read more

Critical Essay by Francis King [In The Middle Ground, Kate, a journalist] is sick to death of women but women are all that she really knows about. After this beginning, there follow some 60 pages in w... Read more

Critical Essay by Phyllis Rose "The Middle Ground" concerns itself generally with the crisis of British urban life and particularly with a crisis in the life of its protagonist, Kate Arm... Read more

Critical Essay by Thomas F. Staley The Middle Ground is Margaret Drabble's … most complex and technically ambitious work. It is both an extension and an elaboration of her sustained chro... Read more

Critical Essay by P. N. Furbank There is not much to the action of [The Garrick Year], a sexual foursome (successful young television actor, smart wife who wants to be a television announcer, famous p... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Miss Drabble makes her books, carefully and consciously, as her heroines make their lives. She tells rather than shows, and she always knows very clearl... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement History as well as temperament apparently summoned Miss Drabble to the role of a contemporary George Eliot: to write about work, society, morality in th... Read more

Critical Essay by Roger Sale Margaret Drabble is the current English Lady Novelist, the one you have to read now as you had to read Iris Murdoch ten years and Elizabeth Bowen thirty years ago. Those w... Read more