Bernardine Bishop
Bernardine Anna Livia Mary Bishop (born August 16, 1939 in London - † July 4, 2013 ) was a British writer .
Life
She was born in 1939 as the daughter of the writers Bernard and Barbara Wall . She attended Our Lady of Sion School in Notting Hill, London . After that they went to the Newnham College of the University of Cambridge , where she in 1960 graduated . Then she worked as a teacher.
In 1961 she married the pianist Stephen Bishop . The marriage resulted in two sons. In 1967 the divorce took place. In 1981 she married again. Soon after, she began working as a psychotherapist at the London Center for Psychotherapy . In 2010 she retired due to cancer.
As a writer, Bishop first worked in the early 1960s. In 1961 she published her first book Perspectives . A second novel followed in 1963. In the mid-1960s, she appeared in the literary quiz Take It Or Leave It , moderated by Robert Robinson . In 2013, fifty years after her last book, she published Unexpected Lessons in Love , a partly autobiographical novel in which she dealt with her own cancer.
The suffragette and poet Alice Meynell was her maternal great-grandmother.
Publications
- Perspectives (1961)
- Playing House (1963)
- Unexpected Lessons in Love (2013)
Web links
- Bernardine Bishop obituary , July 5, 2013, The Guardian
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on the website of the Hachette Australia publishing house
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bishop, Bernardine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bishop, Bernardine Anna Livia Mary (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 2013 |