Molly Lefebure

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Molly Lefebure (born October 6, 1919 in London , † February 27, 2013 in the county of Hampshire ) was a British writer with a particular preference for the Lake District and the so-called Lake Poets ( William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Robert Southey ).

Life

Molly Lefebure was born in London and studied at King's College London and the University of London . During the Second World War she worked as a reporter for a London newspaper. She then worked as a pathologist's secretary and processed the experience she gained in the books Evidence for the Crown and Murder on the Home Front .

After several years of drug abuse at Guy's Hospital in London , she wrote about the poet Coleridge and the impact his opiate addiction had on his life and work. In her book The Bondage of Love , Molly Lefebure uses the sources to draw a completely new and positive image of Sarah Fricker, Coleridge's wife.

Another book is about Thomas Hardy and the portrayal of his works in films.

Many of her books deal with topics related to the Lake District. Her children's books Scratch and Co and The Hunting of Wilberforce Pike were illustrated by the author and illustrator Alfred Wainwright .

In 2010, Molly Lefebure was inducted into the Royal Society of Literature as a Fellow . She and her husband John, who died in November 2011 after 68 years of marriage, lived near the town of Keswick in Cumbria . After the death of her husband, she moved to a nursing home in Hampshire near her children, where she died on February 27, 2013.

Works

  • Evidence for the Crown: Experiences of a Pathogist's Secretary. William Heinemann, 1955. New edition under the title Murder on the Home Front: The Unique Wartime Memoirs of a Pathologist's Secretary. Grafton Books, 1990, ISBN 978-0586208540 .
  • Murder with a Difference: The Cases of Haigh and Christie. William Heinemann, 1958.
  • The English Lake District. Batsford, 1964.
  • Scratch and Co - The Great Cat Expedition. Gollancz, 1968. New edition: Mountainmere Research, 2006, ISBN 978-0954721312 .
  • Cumberland Heritage. Gollancz, 1970, ISBN 0575003766 .
  • The Hunting of Wilberforce Pike. Gollancz, 1970. New edition: Collins, 1975, ISBN 978-0006709459 .
  • The Loona Ballona. Nelson, 1974.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Bondage of Opium. Stein and Day, 1974, ISBN 0-8128-1711-7 .
  • Cumbrian Discovery. Gollancz, 1977, ISBN 0-575-02235-3 .
  • The Bondage of Love - A Life of Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Gollancz, London 1986, ISBN 0-575-03871-3 .
  • The Illustrated Lake Poets. 1987, ISBN 0711204772 .
  • Lightning! Gollancz, 1988, ISBN 0-575-04306-7 ; also published as We'll Meet Again. Grafton Books, 1990.
  • Thunder In The Sky. Gollancz, 1991, ISBN 0-575-04807-7 .
  • Thomes Hardy's World: His Life, Times and Works. Carlton Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1858682457 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Story: Lakeland author dies before book broadcast as major TV drama. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Online edition of The Cumberland News, March 15, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cumberlandnews.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Lefebure, Molly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2013
Place of death Hampshire