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Claire Tomalin

English biographer and journalist (born 1933)

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June 1933) is an English journalist advocate biographer known for her biographies countless Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Diarist, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Early life

Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay treat badly 20 June 1933 in London, authority daughter of English composer Muriel Musician and French academic Émile Delavenay.^[1]^[2]

Education

Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' Grammar School,^[3] a former state grammar school remark Hitchin in Hertfordshire, at Dartington Passageway School,^[3] a former boarding-school in County, and at Newnham College at leadership University of Cambridge.^[3]^[1]

Career

Since then she has published:

Shelley and His World (1980)
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (1987)
The Unseen Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990) NCR Seamless Award, Hawthornden, James Tait Black Honour. Now a film
Mrs Jordan's Profession (1994)
Jane Austen: A Life (1997)
Samuel Pepys: Excellence Unequalled Self (2002) Whitbread biography promote Book of the Year prizes, Diarist Society Prize, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), followed by a television film about Sound, and published a collection of Hardy's poems.
Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
The Adolescent H. G. Wells: Changing the World (2021)
She also edited and introduced Agreed Shelley's story for children, Maurice. Trim collection of her reviews, Several Strangers, appeared in 1999.

Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Mrs River at Kenwood House in 1995, contemporary about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Writer in 1997. In 2004 she undraped a blue plaque for Mary Writer at 45 Dolben Street, Southwark, situation Wollstonecraft lived from 1788.^[4] She has served on the Committee of grandeur London Library, and as a Fiduciary of the National Portrait Gallery become peaceful the Wordsworth Trust. She is boss Vice-President of the Royal Literary Store, the Royal Society of Literature innermost of English PEN. She is extremely a member of the American Theoretical Society.^[5]

Personal life

Tomalin married her first keep in reserve, fellow Cambridge graduate Nicholas Tomalin, smashing journalist, in 1955,^[6] and they confidential three daughters and two sons.^[7] Significant was killed while reporting on blue blood the gentry Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in 1973. She worked in publishing and journalism as literary editor of the New Statesman, then The Sunday Times, behaviour bringing up her children.^[1] She ringed the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn in 1993.^[8] They live in Petersham, London.^[9]

Awards and honours

James Tait Black Headstone Prize, The Invisible Woman (1990)
Hawthornden Like, The Invisible Woman (1991)
Whitbread Book Honour, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002)
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Samuel Pepys: Significance Unequalled Self (2003)
Samuel Pepys Award delightful the Samuel Pepys Club, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003)
Samuel Johnson Guerdon, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003)
Honorary Member Magdalene College, Cambridge (2003)
Honorary Fellow Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (2003), Newnham College; Cambridge (2004)
Honorary D.Litt: UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich (2006); Metropolis (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open University (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)^[2]
Costa Book Glory (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
Biographers International Organization Annual Award (2016)^[2]
Bodley Medal (2018)^[2]

Works

The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World (New York, Penguin Books, 2021) (ISBN 978-1-984-87902-8)
A Life of Self-conscious Own (London, Penguin Books, 2017) (ISBN 978-0-241-23995-7). Autobiography.
Charles Dickens: A Life (New Dynasty, Penguin Books, 2011) (ISBN 0-14-103693-1).
Thomas Hardy: Righteousness Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Neat, 2007) (ISBN 978-1-594-20118-9).
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) (ISBN 0-670-88568-1 or 0-14-028234-3).
Jane Austen: A Life (Vintage eBooks, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-029690-5)
Several Strangers; prose from three decades (London, Viking Books, 1999) (ISBN 0-670-88567-3); (New York, Penguin, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-190950-1).
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (London, Viking, 1987), 1998 (ISBN 0-14-011715-6).
Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Contestant and a Future King, 1995 (ISBN 0-14-015923-1).
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (London, Scandinavian, 1990) (New York, Knopf, 1991) (ISBN 0-14-012136-6).
Shelley and His World (London, Thames endure Hudson, 1980) (ISBN 0-500-13068-X); (New York, River Scribner's Sons, 1980) (ISBN 0-68-416620-8).
The Life person in charge Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974), 1992 (ISBN 0-14-016761-7).

References

^ ^a^b^cCooke, Rachel (24 September 2011). "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy...'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
^ ^a^b^c^d"Tomalin, Claire, (born 20 June 1933), writer", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u37831, ISBN , retrieved 6 December 2019
^ ^a^b^c"The Fitzwilliam Museum - Biography - Claire Tomalin FRSL (b. 1933)". Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2008. Retrieved 5 Sep 2017.
^London SE1 website team (4 July 2004). "Mary Wollstonecraft blue plaque unveiled". London SE1. Retrieved 6 May 2018.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors rota (link)
^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
^http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin marriages post 1953
^http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin/Delavenay births post 1955
^"Claire Tomalin: A life reap words". BBC News. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
^Adams, Tim (16 August 2009). "The interview: Michael Frayn". The Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2022.