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| name = The Lady Hemingford |
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| birth_name = Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss |
| birth_name = Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss |
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|04|29|df=yes}} |
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|10|18|1937|04|29|df=yes}} |
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|10|18|1937|04|29|df=yes}} |
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| death_place = [[Huntingdon]], [[Cambridgeshire]], England |
| death_place = [[Huntingdon]], [[Cambridgeshire]], England |
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| nationality = English |
| nationality = English |
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| occupation = Author |
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| known_for = ''[[Knowledge of Angels]]'' |
| known_for = ''[[Knowledge of Angels]]'' |
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* {{marriage|Antony Paton Walsh|1961|2003|end=d.}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Eccleshare |first=Julia |title=Jill Paton Walsh obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/26/jill-paton-walsh-obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=26 October 2020}}</ref> |
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* {{marriage|[[John Rowe Townsend]]|2004|2014|end=d.}} |
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* {{marriage|[[Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford]]|2020}} |
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'''Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|FRSL}} (née '''Bliss'''; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as '''Jill Paton Walsh''', was an English novelist and [[children's writer]]. She may be known best for her [[Booker Prize]]-nominated novel ''[[Knowledge of Angels]]'' and for the [[Peter Wimsey]]–[[Harriet Vane]] mysteries that [[Continuation novel|continued the work]] of [[Dorothy L. Sayers]].<!-- the first two are her works most widely held in WorldCat libraries --> |
'''Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|FRSL}} (née '''Bliss'''; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as '''Jill Paton Walsh''', was an English novelist and [[children's writer]]. She may be known best for her [[Booker Prize]]-nominated novel ''[[Knowledge of Angels]]'' and for the [[Peter Wimsey]]–[[Harriet Vane]] mysteries that [[Continuation novel|continued the work]] of [[Dorothy L. Sayers]].<!-- the first two are her works most widely held in WorldCat libraries --> |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss was born on 29 April 1937 to John Bliss, an engineer for the BBC who at his death had 363 patents to his name, and Patricia Paula DuBern, a homemaker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenbay.co.uk/bio.html |title=Jill Paton Walsh |website=Green Bay|access-date=19 October 2020}}</ref> |
Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss was born on 29 April 1937 to John Bliss, an engineer for the BBC who at his death had 363 patents to his name, and Patricia Paula DuBern, a homemaker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenbay.co.uk/bio.html |title=Jill Paton Walsh |website=Green Bay|access-date=19 October 2020}}</ref> |
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She went with her mother and siblings to live with grandparents in [[St Ives, Cornwall]], when she was three years old because of the [[World War II]] bombings. In 1944, after the grandmother had died, Bliss returned to London to live with her mother and her younger siblings, who had returned to London earlier.<ref name="obituaryPW">{{cite news |last1=Maughan |first1=Shannon |title=Obituary: Jill Paton Walsh |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/84668-obituary-jill-paton-walsh.html |access-date=20 October 2020 |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> Bliss was educated at [[St Michael's Catholic Grammar School|St Michael's Convent]], [[North Finchley]], London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/inspiration/contributors/patonwalsh.html|title=The Fitzwilliam Museum - Home - Online Resources - Online Exhibitions - A Source of Inspiration - Contributors - Jill Paton Walsh|date=4 February 2010}}</ref> She studied English at [[St Anne's College, Oxford]],<ref>{{cite web |title=In Memoriam: Jill Paton Walsh |url=https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/in-memoriam-jill-paton-walsh/ |website=[[St Anne's College, Oxford]] |access-date=9 October 2024 |date=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Evocative Godrevy Lighthouse |work=[[St Ives Times & Echo]] |issue=3117 |date=8 December 1972 |page=6}}</ref> graduating in 1959, and lived in [[Cambridge]]. |
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⚫ | After graduating, Bliss taught English at [[Enfield County School|Enfield County Grammar School for Girls]], but left her position in 1962, as she was expecting her first child.<ref name="obituaryPW" /> |
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⚫ | After graduating, Bliss taught English at [[Enfield County School|Enfield County Grammar School for Girls]], but left her position in 1962, as she was expecting her first child.<ref name="obituaryPW" /> In the previous year she had married Antony Edmund Paton Walsh; they settled in Richmond, south-west London, and had one son and two daughters. |
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In the early 1970s, Jill met [[John Rowe Townsend]] and they began an affair. She left her first husband only in 1986, when their youngest daughter turned 18. |
In the early 1970s, Jill met [[John Rowe Townsend]] and they began an affair. She left her first husband only in 1986, when their youngest daughter turned 18. |
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Antony did not want a divorce because of his Roman Catholic faith. Jill and Townsend were married only in 2004, after Antony's death on 30 December 2003.<ref name="obituaryPW" /> Townsend died in 2014.<ref>{{cite |
Antony did not want a divorce because of his Roman Catholic faith. Jill and Townsend were married only in 2004, after Antony's death on 30 December 2003.<ref name="obituaryPW" /> Townsend died in 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/02/john-rowe-townsend|title=John Rowe Townsend obituary|first=Stephanie|last=Nettell|date=2 April 2014|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> |
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In February 2020, she met [[Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford]], |
In February 2020, she met [[Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford]] (1934−2022),<ref>{{cite news |last=Herbert |first=Cally |title=Nick Herbert obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/18/nick-herbert-obituary |access-date=19 January 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=18 January 2023}}</ref> whom she married in September of that year.<ref name="Telegraph" /> She died three weeks later, in October, of [[kidney failure|kidney]] and [[heart failure]] in hospital at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/books/jill-paton-walsh-dead.html|title=Jill Paton Walsh, Multigenerational Writer, Dies at 83|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 November 2020|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news |title=Jill Paton Walsh, novelist ranging from children's stories to Dorothy Sayers mysteries – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/10/20/jill-paton-walsh-novelist-ranging-childrens-stories-dorothy/ |access-date=20 October 2020 |work=The Telegraph |date=20 October 2020}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="yahoo">{{cite news |url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/jill-paton-walsh-knowledge-angels-140607917.html?guccounter=1 |title=Jill Paton Walsh: Knowledge of Angels author dies at 83 |website=Yahoo News |access-date=19 October 2020 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020084557/https://au.news.yahoo.com/jill-paton-walsh-knowledge-angels-140607917.html?guccounter=1 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/26/jill-paton-walsh-obituary |title=Jill Paton Walsh obituary |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 October 2020|author=Julia Eccleshare}}</ref> |
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==Honours== |
==Honours== |
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==On writing for children== |
==On writing for children== |
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⚫ | In an essay on realism in children's literature, Paton Walsh stated that realism (like fantasy) is also metaphorical, and that she would like the relationship between the reader and her characters Bill and Julie in ''Fireweed'' to be as metaphorical as that between "dragons and the reader's greed or courage".<ref>{{cite book|title=Celebrating Children's Books: Essays on Children's Literature in Honor of Zena Sutherland|editor1=Jill Paton Walsh|editor2=Betsy Hearne|editor3=Marilyn Kaye |year=1981|publisher=Lathrop, Lee, and Shepard Books|location=New York|isbn=0-688-00752-X|pages=[https://archive.org/details/celebratingchild00suth/page/38/mode/2up 39]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/celebratingchild00suth/page/37}}</ref> |
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⚫ | In an essay on realism in children's literature, Paton Walsh stated that realism (like fantasy) is also metaphorical, and that she would like the relationship between the reader and her characters Bill and Julie in ''Fireweed'' to be as metaphorical as that between "dragons and the reader's greed or courage".<ref>{{cite book|title=Celebrating Children's Books: Essays on Children's Literature in Honor of Zena Sutherland| |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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===Imogen Quy=== |
===Imogen Quy=== |
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Paton Walsh wrote four detective stories that featured part-time college nurse Imogen Quy, and were set in the fictional [[List of fictional Cambridge colleges|St |
Paton Walsh wrote four detective stories that featured part-time college nurse Imogen Quy, and were set in the fictional [[List of fictional Cambridge colleges|St Agatha's College]], [[University of Cambridge]]: |
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* ''The Wyndham Case'' (1993) |
* ''The Wyndham Case'' (1993) |
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* ''A Piece of Justice'' (1995)<!--bad date in WorldCat--> |
* ''A Piece of Justice'' (1995)<!--bad date in WorldCat--> |
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===Lord Peter Wimsey=== |
===Lord Peter Wimsey=== |
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In 1998, she completed [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]'s unfinished [[Lord Peter Wimsey]]–[[Harriet Vane]] novel, ''[[Thrones, Dominations]]''. In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, ''[[A Presumption of Death]]''. In 2010, she published a third, ''[[The Attenbury Emeralds]]''.<ref>''The Attenbury Emeralds''. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-340-99572-3}}.</ref> Her last addition to the series, ''[[The Late Scholar]]'', was published 5 December 2013 in the UK, and 14 January 2014 in North America.<ref>''The Late Scholar''. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014. Paperback, 368 pages. {{ISBN|1444751905}}, {{ISBN|978-1444751901}}.</ref> |
In 1998, she completed [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]'s unfinished [[Lord Peter Wimsey]]–[[Harriet Vane]] novel, ''[[Thrones, Dominations]]''. In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, ''[[A Presumption of Death]]''. In 2010, she published a third, ''[[The Attenbury Emeralds]]''.<ref>''The Attenbury Emeralds''. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-340-99572-3}}.</ref> Her last addition to the series, ''[[The Late Scholar]]'', was published 5 December 2013 in the UK, and 14 January 2014 in North America.<ref>''The Late Scholar''. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014. Paperback, 368 pages. {{ISBN|1444751905}}, {{ISBN|978-1444751901}}.</ref> |
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===Children's books=== |
===Children's books=== |
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* ''Fireweed'' (1969) |
* ''Fireweed'' (1969) |
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* ''Goldengrove'' (1972) |
* ''Goldengrove'' (1972) |
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* ''The Dawnstone (1973) |
* ''The Dawnstone'' (1973), published by Hamish Hamilton |
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* ''Toolmaker'' (1973), picture book illus. Jeroo Roy<!--45pp http://lccn.loc.gov/73007126--> |
* ''Toolmaker'' (1973), picture book illus. Jeroo Roy<!--45pp http://lccn.loc.gov/73007126--> |
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* ''The Emperor's Winding Sheet'' —[[Whitbread Book Awards|Whitbread Prize]] for children's books, 1974 |
* ''The Emperor's Winding Sheet'' —[[Whitbread Book Awards|Whitbread Prize]] for children's books, 1974 |
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Latest revision as of 01:49, 11 December 2024
The Lady Hemingford | |
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Born | Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss 29 April 1937 London, England |
Died | 18 October 2020 Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England | (aged 83)
Nationality | English |
Occupation | Author |
Known for | Knowledge of Angels |
Spouses | |
Children | 3 |
Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, CBE, FRSL (née Bliss; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
Personal life
[edit]Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss was born on 29 April 1937 to John Bliss, an engineer for the BBC who at his death had 363 patents to his name, and Patricia Paula DuBern, a homemaker.[2]
She went with her mother and siblings to live with grandparents in St Ives, Cornwall, when she was three years old because of the World War II bombings. In 1944, after the grandmother had died, Bliss returned to London to live with her mother and her younger siblings, who had returned to London earlier.[3] Bliss was educated at St Michael's Convent, North Finchley, London.[4] She studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford,[5][6] graduating in 1959, and lived in Cambridge.
After graduating, Bliss taught English at Enfield County Grammar School for Girls, but left her position in 1962, as she was expecting her first child.[3] In the previous year she had married Antony Edmund Paton Walsh; they settled in Richmond, south-west London, and had one son and two daughters.
In the early 1970s, Jill met John Rowe Townsend and they began an affair. She left her first husband only in 1986, when their youngest daughter turned 18.
Antony did not want a divorce because of his Roman Catholic faith. Jill and Townsend were married only in 2004, after Antony's death on 30 December 2003.[3] Townsend died in 2014.[7]
In February 2020, she met Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford (1934−2022),[8] whom she married in September of that year.[9] She died three weeks later, in October, of kidney and heart failure in hospital at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.[10][9][11][12]
Honours
[edit]In 1996, Paton Walsh received the CBE for services to literature and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1998, she won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association, recognising A Chance Child as the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.[13]
On writing for children
[edit]In an essay on realism in children's literature, Paton Walsh stated that realism (like fantasy) is also metaphorical, and that she would like the relationship between the reader and her characters Bill and Julie in Fireweed to be as metaphorical as that between "dragons and the reader's greed or courage".[14]
Works
[edit]Knowledge of Angels (1993), a medieval philosophical novel, was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.[15] Other adult novels include:
- Farewell, Great King (1972)
- Lapsing (1986), about Catholic university students
- A School for Lovers (1989), reworking of the plot of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
- The Serpentine Cave (1997), based on a lifeboat disaster in St Ives
- A Desert in Bohemia (2000), which follows a group of characters in England and in an imaginary Eastern European country through the years between World War II and 1989
Imogen Quy
[edit]Paton Walsh wrote four detective stories that featured part-time college nurse Imogen Quy, and were set in the fictional St Agatha's College, University of Cambridge:
- The Wyndham Case (1993)
- A Piece of Justice (1995)
- Debts of Dishonour (2006)
- The Bad Quarto (2007)
Lord Peter Wimsey
[edit]In 1998, she completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane novel, Thrones, Dominations. In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, A Presumption of Death. In 2010, she published a third, The Attenbury Emeralds.[16] Her last addition to the series, The Late Scholar, was published 5 December 2013 in the UK, and 14 January 2014 in North America.[17]
Children's books
[edit]- Hengest's Tale (St Martin's Press, 1966), fiction, illustrated by Janet Margrie[18]
- The Dolphin Crossing (1967), adapted for the stage by Ed Viney (2012)
- Word Hoard: Anglo-Saxon stories (1969?), by Paton Walsh and Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Fireweed (1969)
- Goldengrove (1972)
- The Dawnstone (1973), published by Hamish Hamilton
- Toolmaker (1973), picture book illus. Jeroo Roy
- The Emperor's Winding Sheet —Whitbread Prize for children's books, 1974
- The Butty Boy (1975), illus. Juliette Palmer
- The Huffler (1975), illus. Palmer
- The Island Sunrise: prehistoric Britain (1975); US subtitle, —nonfiction
- Unleaving (1976), sequel to Goldengrove —Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction, 1976
- Crossing to Salamis (1977), picture book illus. David Smee
- The Walls of Athens (1977), picture book illus. Smee
- A Chance Child (1978)
- Children of the Fox (1978), illus. Robin Eaton
- The Green Book (1981), illus. Lloyd Bloom
- Babylon (1982)
- A Parcel of Patterns (1983)
- Gaffer Samson's Luck (1984) —Smarties Prize, 1985
- Birdy and the Ghosties (1989)
- Grace (1991)
- When Grandma Came (1992), picture book illus. by Sophy Williams
- Thomas and the Tinners (1995) — 1995 Carnegie Medal longlist
Bibliography
[edit]- Garrett, Martin (2004). Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History. Oxford: Signal Books. Archived from the original on 7 April 2011. With foreword by Jill Paton Walsh.
References
[edit]- ^ Eccleshare, Julia (26 October 2020). "Jill Paton Walsh obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "Jill Paton Walsh". Green Bay. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ a b c Maughan, Shannon. "Obituary: Jill Paton Walsh". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "The Fitzwilliam Museum - Home - Online Resources - Online Exhibitions - A Source of Inspiration - Contributors - Jill Paton Walsh". 4 February 2010.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Jill Paton Walsh". St Anne's College, Oxford. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ "Evocative Godrevy Lighthouse". St Ives Times & Echo. No. 3117. 8 December 1972. p. 6.
- ^ Nettell, Stephanie (2 April 2014). "John Rowe Townsend obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Herbert, Cally (18 January 2023). "Nick Herbert obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Jill Paton Walsh, novelist ranging from children's stories to Dorothy Sayers mysteries – obituary". The Telegraph. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020. (subscription required)
- ^ Genzlinger, Neil (18 November 2020). "Jill Paton Walsh, Multigenerational Writer, Dies at 83". The New York Times.
- ^ "Jill Paton Walsh: Knowledge of Angels author dies at 83". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ Julia Eccleshare (26 October 2020). "Jill Paton Walsh obituary". The Guardian.
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"Phoenix Award Brochure 2012"[permanent dead link ]. Children's Literature Association. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
See also the current homepage, "Phoenix Award". - ^ Jill Paton Walsh; Betsy Hearne; Marilyn Kaye, eds. (1981). Celebrating Children's Books: Essays on Children's Literature in Honor of Zena Sutherland. New York: Lathrop, Lee, and Shepard Books. pp. 39. ISBN 0-688-00752-X.
- ^ The Guardian, 24 October 2010
- ^ The Attenbury Emeralds. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-340-99572-3.
- ^ The Late Scholar. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014. Paperback, 368 pages. ISBN 1444751905, ISBN 978-1444751901.
- ^ Hengest's tale. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
External links
[edit]- Official website with biography and complete bibliography to 2001
- Jill Paton Walsh at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Paton Walsh, Jill at Library of Congress, with 54 library catalogue records
- 1937 births
- 2020 deaths
- English children's writers
- English mystery writers
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- British baronesses
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- People educated at St. Michael's Catholic Grammar School
- Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford
- English women mystery writers
- English women novelists
- 21st-century English women writers
- 20th-century English women writers
- Writers from London
- People from St Ives, Cornwall