Rachel Billington
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
- Rachel Billington (English)
- inside-time - Rachel Billington (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Lady Rachel Mary Pakenham on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
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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 |