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 Mary Renault ( 4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983 ) English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece; born Mary Challans Sourced How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? The King Must Die (1958) Go with... 
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Mary Renault (pronounced Ren-olt[1]) (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) born Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and...
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 Contemporary Review Mary Renault: A Biography.
07/01/1993: 591 words, approx. 2 pages David Sweetman was a BBC television producer who interviewed the novelist, Mary Renault, in 1982. Six years later he told her Iife-long friend and fellow nurse, Julie Mullard, that he wanted to write a biography. Fortunately, Miss Mullard agreed to help and her presence... summary from source:
Twentieth Century Literature Masquing the phallus: genital ambiguity in Mary Renault's historical novels.
06/22/1996: 7,352 words, approx. 25 pages Mary Renault was a lesbian novelist who wrote nonhistorical and historical novels between 1939 and 1983. She was once thought to be a man as she exercised a predilection for writing primarily about male characters even while using seemingly male narrators in many of...
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 Critical Essay by Granville Hicks
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Miss Renault is able to write about ancient Greece as if she had been there. I don't know whether I admire this gift of hers more in the Theseus novels, where her imagination was free to build as it could on a meager foundation of facts, or in the Athenian novels, which might so easily have suffered from an excess of documentation…. The world Miss Renault shows us is sufficiently in harmony with the one we have read about in history books, and yet it is a world she has created…. As we f... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert Payne
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[Mary Renault] has chosen to write a story for children about the Greeks defying the Persian empire ["The Lion in the Gateway"] and there is never any question about the purpose of the story. She tells it freshly, exultantly, as though it had never been told before. She has caught Herodotus's trick of making her heroes a little larger than life. She has a proper respect for Persian opulence and magnificence, and when she describes Darius or Xerxes she paints them in rainbow colors; and ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Hugh Kenner
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Despite her bibliographies and factual afterwords, Miss Renault setting out to re-create a Greek reality isn't your ordinary taxidermist, intent on matching the colors of the glass eyes. No, she's a male impersonator…. Classical Greece, where homoerotic relations were unencumbered by moral disesteem, has set her imagination free repeatedly….
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