Beryl Bainbridge
Subtitle: love by all sorts of means : a biography
By: Brendan King
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781472908537
Subjects: Biography; English Authors
Other titles: Beryl Bainbridge :; Love by all sorts of means
Description: This biography draws on a mass of unpublished letters and diaries to reveal the real woman behind the popular image. He explores Bainbridge's difficult childhood in Formby, her career as a young actress at the Liverpool Playhouse, and her life as a single mother and writer in Camden Town. Along the way he tackles her complex private life: her failed marriage to the painter Austin Davies, her affairs, and her longstanding relationship with her publisher, Colin Haycraft.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-547) and index.
Table of contents: title: Winnie and Dick; title: Mummy and Daddy; title: Education; title: Us versus them; title: Harry; title: Tring; title: The Playhouse; title: Austin; title: London; title: Dundee; title: Engagement; title: Break; title: Paris; title: Married life; title: The summer of the Tsar; title: Separation; title: I'm not criticizing ... I'm remembering; title: The return of the wild colonial boy; title: A knight in tarnished armor; title: Basher's progress; title: Albert street; title: America; title: Eves farm; title: Bottle factory; title: Harriet said; title: Success; title: The writing life; title: Fact and fiction; title: Goodbye Mr Chip; title: Celebrity; title: Illness.