
Victoria Glendinning
23 April 1937
26 works on record
Biography
Hon Victoria Glendinning CBE (23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was awarded a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature.
She was born in Sheffield to a Quaker family, Her father was Baron Seebohm. Glendinning grew up near York and went to the University of Oxford to study modern languages. In the second year of her degree, she married one of her Spanish lecturers, Professor Nigel Glendinning in 1958. They divorced in 1981. Her second husband Terence de Vere White died of Parkinson's disease in 1994 and she remarried in 1996. She had four sons (before she was 28) including Matthew Glendinning, with whom she coauthored the book Sons and Mothers, and the mathematician Paul Glendinning. Another son, Simon Glendinning, lectures in European Philosophy at the London School of Economics having previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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Works

Leonard Woolf
2006

Flight~Victoria Glendinning
2004

Emerald City. Stories
2002

Ilektrismos
2000

Fire Down Below
2000

Jonathan Swift (Pimlico)
1999

A suppressed cry
1995

Electricity
1995

Vita Sackville- West. Eine Biographie
1994

Anthony Trollope
1993

Trollope
1992

Grown-ups, The
1989

Victoria Glendinning's Hertfordshire
1989

Rebecca West, a life
1987

Edith Sitwell
1983

Elizabeth Bowen
1977

Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity

Le don de Charlotte

Sons & mothers
Anthony Trollope, Part 2
Anthony Trollope, Part 2
1995
Anthony Trollope, Part 1
Anthony Trollope, Part 1
1995
The butcher's daughter
The butcher's daughter
Broderie Anglaise
Broderie Anglaise
Love's Civil War
Love's Civil War
Family Business
Family Business
Swift, Vanessa and Stella
Swift, Vanessa and Stella