Margaret Drabble, "The Millstone": part of the « Angry Young Men » movement? - publié le 23/11/2006

Abstract

Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield (Yorkshire) in 1939. She has an upper-class and intellectual background: her father was a barrister, a county court judge and a novelist; her mother was a teacher. She had a strict education and a studious life as a young girl: she went to a Quaker boarding-school and graduated at the Cambridge. Before writing novels, she was an actress in the Royal Shakespeare Company.