"She must be from your mother's side of the family."
Posted on 09/28/2004 3:03:45 PM PDT by kcvl
Nut case. Intercept the aircraft and return her to Heathrow for questioning by Scotland Yard.
The Red Queen, by Margaret Drabble (Harcourt). An Oxford student mysteriously receives a 200-year-old memoir by a Korean crown princess, just before she makes a trip to Seoul.
http://www.redmood.com/drabble/
Margaret Drabble was born June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
Her father, John Frederick Drabble, was a barrister, a county court judge and a novelist. Author A.S. Byatt is her older sister.
She attended the Mount School, York, a Quaker boarding-school and was awarded a major scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English and received double honors (a "starred first"). After being graduated from Cambridge University, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford during which time she understudied for Vanessa Redgrave.
In 1960 she married her first husband, actor Clive Swift, who is best known for his role in the 1990 BBC television comedy "Keeping Up Appearances." They had three children in the 1960's and divorced in 1975.
She subsequently married the biographer Michael Holroyd in the early 1980's. They live in London and also have a house in Somerset.
Her novel The Millstone won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and she was the recipient of a Society of Author's Travelling Fellowship in the mid-1960's. She also received the James Tait Black and the E.M. Forster awards and was awarded the CBE in 1980
She is often described as being the author one should read to get a clear view of what it's like to live in England. This is true not only because of her non-fiction books "For Queen and Country" and "A Writer's Britain" but also for her novels. The English personalities of her characters are tangible in her novels which, through the decades, have also reflected the dramatic political, economic and social changes that have taken place in Great Britain.
Her newest novel is The Seven Sisters.
Kitties...
This one's in your court, Hollywood.
Pathetic.
Margaret Drabble and redhead_pt, you both are sickening..
Putin's recent power-grab might not be a bad thing.
Nothing like a dose of totalitarianism on their Eastern front to remind the EuroTrash who provides the balancing muscle in the equation.
Miss Drabble, I can't help but notice that you wrote this in English, rather than the German that "the other America" would have left you all speaking.
I hope she will take John Gisons challenge to come on his show and talk about her loooathing of america....and invite some good americans to have at her...
Man! It gets worse!
Probably MLB and apple pie.
The practice is universal...though we Americans made it look good. Of course, our major offense was putting a maw on some aircraft and pinup girls or cartoon characters on others. I guess we should have been following Japan's lead and instead put haiku poetry on them celebrating suicide for the Japanese Emperor. (Oh wait...I forgot...according to Ms. Drabble, we're the Imperialists! Silly me.)
The appropiately named Ms. Drabble.
Any time I hear a Brit call Americans "imperialists" I just gotta laugh...
Given power this sort of person can be extremely dangerous. Hitler was precisely this sort of person, and the hatred he felt for the Jews expressed itself in precisely this sort of inchoate rage. This sort of hatred will find a cause and deny any counterargument as threatening to the thrill. Short of a cause it will make one up. It becomes an obsession. I have yet to see a single individual consumed by it recover.
John Gibson just talked about this person coming to the United States to promote something.....
She's a famous author in England
Eurotrash morons like this are dime a dozen and so incredibly boring. Next time a tyrannt is on their doorstep breathing down their neck, they can use their "anti-Americanism" to defeat him with. And by the way, get mental help.
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