Rachel Billington

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Rachel and Kevin Billington (1968)

Lady Rachel Mary Billington , OBE (* 11. April 1942 in Bayswater , London as Rachel Mary Pakenham ) is a British writer , journalist , former President and current Vice-President of English PEN

Life

Lady Rachel Mary Pakenham's family comes from the Irish - English aristocracy . Her father was Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905-2001), an associate professor of politics at Oxford , who unsuccessfully as Labor - MP for the lower house candidate and after the war to the upper house moved in, where he as an opponent of pornography became known . Antonia Pakenham's mother, Elizabeth Harman (1906–2002), a recognized historian, also wrote more than a dozen books. She and her siblings grew up in a world of literature and, even more unusual, a world of Anglicans converting to Catholicism .

Since December 16, 1967, she has been married to the English director Kevin Billington (* 1934), with whom she has two daughters and two sons. Today the couple live alternately in London and Dorset .

literature

  • 1970 Big Dipper
  • 1971 Lilacs Out of the Dead Land
  • 1973 Cock Robin (Black Swan)
  • 1981 Rosanna and the Wizard-robot
  • 1981 Painted Devil
  • 1982 Occasion of Sin
  • 1983 The First Christmas
  • 1984 Star Time
  • 1986 The Garish Day
  • 1988 The First Easter
  • 1989 Loving Attitudes
  • 1990 A Woman's Age
  • 1990 The Seven Deadly Sins
  • 1991 Theo and Matilda: A Novel
  • 1992 The Family Year
  • 1994 The Great Umbilical: Mothers, Daughters, Mothers, the Unbreakable Bond
  • 1994 Beautiful. All things nice
  • 1996 The Life of Jesus
  • 1997 Magic and Fate
  • 1999 The Life of Saint Francis
  • 1999 Perfect Happiness. The sequel to Jane Austen's 'Emma'
  • 2002 Far Out!
  • 2003 Chapters of Gold: The Life of Mary in Mosaics
  • 2008 Lies and Loyalties

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lady Rachel Mary Pakenham on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Billington, Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pakenham, Rachel Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and President of the English PEN
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayswater , London , England , United Kingdom