Juliet Nicolson
Juliet Nicolson (born June 9, 1954 ) is a British author.
Life
Juliet Nicolson grew up in a family of writers and had lived in Sissinghurst Castle, her grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, in Kent since 1962 . She is a daughter of Philippa Janet Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Nigel Nicolson . She has two daughters, Clemmie and Flora and now lives in Alfriston , Sussex with her second husband, Charles Anson .
Nicolson attended the Benenden School for Girls and studied English at St Hugh's College for Women, Oxford University . She then worked in a public relations department, got married, and moved to New York City with her first husband . After the divorce, she returned to Sissinghurst with the daughters.
Her first historical-literary attempts resulted from an archive work for the memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith . She wrote feature articles for the Spectator newspaper . She has re- edited The Edwardians from Sackville-West .
Nicolson has published two socio-historical non-fiction books on England before and after the First World War. Her first novel As Mrs. Simpson stole the king is among the politicians and writers associated with the British upper class of the 1930s and has already repeated various literary and cinematic processes about the marriage of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII. The feature section is expecting a film also her book through the BBC .
Works
- The perfect summer: dancing into shadow - England in 1911 . New York: Grove Press 2006
- The great silence, 1918-1920: living in the shadow of the Great War . London: John Murray 2009
-
Abdication . New York: Atria Books, 2012
- When Mrs. Simpson stole the king . Translated from the English by Hans-Christian Oeser . Insel, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-35937-1 .
literature
- Lemma Juliet Nicolson , at: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2011. (Entry updated: 03/18/2011) (accessed with library license on July 9, 2013)
Web links
- Literature by and about Juliet Nicolson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Sarah Burton: The Great Silence 1918-1920, By Juliet Nicolson. Picking up the pieces of a broken society , The Independent , November 27, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Interview with author Juliet Nicolson , at Sussexlife, June 1, 2012
- ↑ Leyla Sanai: Abdication, By Juliet Nicolson , The Independent , June 20, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicolson, Juliet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1954 |