Jessica Mann

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Jessica Mann (born September 13, 1937 in London ; died July 10, 2018 ) was a British writer of crime fiction and non-fiction.

Life

Jessica Mann's parents, Friedrich Alexander Mann and Eleonore Ehrlich (1907–1980), were lawyers of Jewish origin who had to emigrate from Germany in 1933 after the transfer of power to the National Socialists. You could only gain a foothold in London after further studies and exams. The couple had three children, Richard David (* 1935), Jessica and Nicola (* 1944). In view of the persecution of the Jews and the impending invasion of England in 1940 , Richard and Jessica were entrusted by their parents to the Children's Overseas Reception Board , which evacuated them to safe Canada . Jessica wrote the non-fiction book Out of Harm's Way about it in 2005 . Jessica Mann was back in London in 1943/44 and attended St Paul's Girls' School . She then studied archeology at Newnham College , Cambridge and law at the University of Leicester .

The day after graduating from Cambridge in 1959, she married the archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas (1928-2016). They had two sons and two daughters - and the husband became a “frustrated full-time wife, mother and housekeeper”, as befits the model for young women of middle-class origin. Man discovered in the 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan that she was not a single fate. The family lived in Edinburgh for ten years and in Leicester for three years and then moved to Truro , Cornwall . She later worked as an employee in the regional administration.

In 1971 she started writing. She has published more than twenty detective novels in which places of her life and often an archaeologist appear. Nevertheless, for them the literary form of the crime novel is the best form for the author to tell nothing about himself, but rather only lies - Telling Only Lies , the title of one of the crime novels. Mann authored a study of female crime novelists, Deadlier Than the Male . With her husband, she created a book about the lighthouse island Godrevy , the biographical reference point for Virginia Woolf's drive to the lighthouse . In 2012 she wrote a book about the social situation of housewives in the 1950s and their current mystification in television series such as Mad Men .

Mann's features, commentaries, and book reviews have been published in various periodicals: The Daily Telegraph , The Sunday Telegraph , House & Garden, and the regional newspaper Western Morning News , and in the Literary Review , she provided a monthly overview of newly released crime fiction.

Works (selection)

  • All lies . From the English by Sabine Bösz. Argument, Hamburg 1996
  • The trail of the treasure . From the English by Ilse Utz. Argument, Hamburg 1994
  • Mrs. Knox's trade . From the English by Gabriele Kunz and Else Laudan. Argument, Hamburg 1989
  • The forgotten island . From d. Engl. By Wolfdietrich Müller. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Knaur, Munich 1986
  • No state can be made with murders . From d. Engl. By Wolfdietrich Müller. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1984
  • The eighth deadly sin . Translated from Dietlind Bindheim. Heyne, Munich 1979
  • Out of Harm's Way, the story of the overseas evacuation of children during World War 2 . Headline, London 2005
  • Deadlier than the male. An investigation into feminine crime writing. Why are respectable English women so good at murder? Macmillan, New York 1981
  • with Charles Thomas: Godrevy Light . Twelveheads Press, Truro 2009
  • The fifties mystique . Quartet, London 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jessica Mann, crime writer, journalist and broadcaster. In: telegraph.co.uk. July 17, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Jessica Mann , autobiographical information on the website
  3. ↑ a b Jessica Mann What do you mean, the good old days? , The Guardian , April 28, 2012
  4. ↑ Liz Hodgkinson: Only a Mad Woman would call the 50s a golden age: No career. No mortgage. No bank account. A husband who wouldn't lift a finger. A new book says forget the nostalgia , Daily Mail , April 30, 2012
  5. ↑ Ladies, you don't want to go back there , The Spectator , May 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Man, Jessica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2018