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Margaret Drabble

British author
Also known as: Dame Margaret Drabble
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Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is an English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girlā€™s development toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood. Drabble began writing after leaving the University of Cambridge. The central characters of her novels, although widely different in character and circumstance, are shown in situations of tension and stress that are the necessary conditions for their moral...

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