Dame Margaret Drabble
(1939-), Novelist and criticDame Margaret Drabble (Lady Holroyd)
Sitter in 9 portraits
Drabble published her first novel, A Summer Birdcage, in 1963. Her early works describe the life of young women and the conflict between motherhood and intellectual challenges. They include The Waterfall (1969), The Needle's Eye (1972) and The Ice Age (1977). In reviewing The Needle's Eye, author Joyce Carol Oates wrote 'the houses in which people live are furnished, created in scrupulous and loving detail by Miss Drabble, who knows very well ... things are … the expression of our selves'. Drabble is also the author of studies of Wordsworth (1966) and Arnold Bennett (1974) and edited the 1984 edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
by Dmitri Kasterine
modern bromide print from original negative, 2009, based on a work of 1976
NPG P1326
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, July 1964
NPG x88208
by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, May 1976
NPG x18611
Dame Margaret Drabble; Anne Stevenson
by Jane Bown
bromide print on card mount, 1980
NPG x126935
by Sam Green
digital chromogenic print, 2 February 2003
NPG x126276
by Paul Stuart
bromide fibre print, 2016
NPG x200072
Related People
- Dame Antonia Susan ('A.S.') Byatt (sister)
- John Frederick Drabble (father)
- Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd (husband)
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