Miranda Seymour

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Miranda Jane Seymour (born August 8, 1948 ) is a British literary scholar, author and biographer. She has written a number of biographies about female characters, including the British author Mary Shelley and the French racing driver Hellé Nice .

Life

At the age of two, her parents moved to Thrumpton Hall , the family seat in Nottinghamshire . Thrumpton Hall is a Jacobean house on the south bank of the River Trent in the village of Thrumpton. Miranda Seymour was raised there by her father George Fitzroy Seymour , who had a particular fondness for motorcycles and classic cars. This preference is also reflected in her biography of the French racing driver Hellé Nice, who bears the English title The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend .

Miranda Seymour is the author of several children's books, novels, and a number of biographies that have received critical acclaim. She has also written for a number of prestigious journals and magazines. These include The New York Times , The Los Angeles Times , The London Review of Books , The Guardian , The Sunday Times , The Times Literary Supplement , and The Economist . She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and has also taught at Nottingham Trent University for several years . Miranda Seymour is also a member of the Royal Society of Arts .

In 1972 she married the novelist and historian Andrew Sinclair, with whom she had a son. Her second husband was Anthony Gottlieb, then editor-in-chief of The Economist and author of a history of Western philosophy. The marriage ended in 2003. She is married to Ted Lynch from Boston for the third time since 2006. Miranda Seymour now lives in London and Thrumpton Hall. Thrumpton Hall is the subject of her 2007 book In My Father's House: Elegy for an Obsessive Love , for which she was awarded the 2008 Pen Ackerley Prize. She is currently working on a biography of Virginia Cherrill , a film star of the 1930s.

Work (selection)

  • In My Father's House (2007)
  • The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend (2004)
  • Brief History of Thyme (2002)
  • Mary Shelley (2001)
  • The Summer of '39 (1998)
  • Robert Graves : Life on the Edge (1995)
  • Ottoline Morrell : Life on the Grand Scale (1993)
  • The Reluctant Devil (1994)
  • A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915 (1988)
  • Carrying On: a novel (1984)
  • Madonna of the Island: Stories from Corfu (1980)

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personal data
SURNAME Seymour, Miranda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seymour, Miranda Jane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary scholar, author and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1948