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Penelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher; 19 September 1918 – 19 October 1999) was a Welsh-born English journalist, biographer, and novelist. Her semi-autobiographical novel The Pumpkin Eater (1962) was made into a 1964 film of the same name.
Penelope Mortimer (born Sept. 19, 1918, Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales—died Oct. 19, 1999, London, Eng.) was a British journalist and novelist whose writing, depicting a nightmarish world of neuroses and broken marriages, influenced feminist fiction of the 1960s.
May 11, 2022 · Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent.
Dec 2, 2018 · The story of British novelist Penelope Mortimer is, in part, the all too familiar tale of a woman writer plagued by her readership’s inability to separate the life from the art.
Mar 25, 2014 · In 1966 the writer Penelope Mortimer endured a painful sterilization operation that left her with a giant scar across her belly. She languished in a “home” recuperating from a severe...
Lamenting the current neglect of Penelope Mortimer’s novels, Lucy Scholes blames ‘the damaging effects of the term “woman writer”’ and Mortimer’s own heavy dependence on her lived experience in her fiction, which left her readers unable ‘to separate the life from the art’.
Penelope Mortimer was born on 19 September 1918 in Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales, UK. She was a writer, known for Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), A Summer Story (1988) and The Pumpkin Eater (1964). She was married to John Mortimer and Charles Dimont. She died on 19 October 1999 in London, England, UK.
