| 词条 | Penelope Farmer |
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Penelope Jane Farmer (born 1939) is an English fiction writer well known for children's fantasy novels. Her best-known novel is Charlotte Sometimes (1969), a boarding-school story that features a multiple time slip. LifeFarmer was born as a fraternal twin in Westerham, Kent, on 14 June 1939. She was the third child of Hugh Robert MacDonald (died 26 May 2004) and Penelope Boothby Farmer.[1] Her parents and the medical staff at the hospital were not aware of her presence until some 25 minutes after the birth of her twin sister Judith.[2] Throughout Farmer's life, being a twin has been a defining element of her understanding of her identity. The twins have an older brother, Tim, and a younger sister, Sally.[3] After attending a boarding school, she read history at St Anne's College, Oxford and did postgraduate work at Bedford College, University of London.[4] Farmer was known in 2012 to be living on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. She there described herself as "a writer – published for many years, now struggling", and listed "her grandchildren" among those she loved and missed. Other relations were mentioned: the departure of her daughter and a granddaughter (23 April 2004). The 22 April 2010 entry states that her son was among those staying with her, with his daughters aged eight and twelve.[5]{{better source|date=January 2017}} Writing careerFarmer's first publication was The China People, a collection of literary fairy tales for young people, in 1960.[1] One story written for this collection was judged too long to include. This was re-written as the first chapter of her first novel for children, The Summer Birds. In 1963, this received a Carnegie Medal commendation and was cited as an American Library Association Notable Book.[3] The Summer Birds was soon followed by its sequels, Emma in Winter (1966) and Charlotte Sometimes (1969), and by A Castle of Bone (1972), Year King (1977), Thicker than Water (1989), Penelope: A Novel (1993), and Granny and Me (1998). Farmer stated that she, while writing Emma in Winter, did not realize that identity was such a predominant theme in the novel until she encountered Margery Fisher's comments on the book. She had a similar realization, this time on her own, while writing Charlotte Sometimes.[6] Works{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
}} References1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/penelope-jane-farmer-dlb/ |title= Dictionary of Literary Biography : Penelope (Jane) Farmer |website=www.bookrags.com |accessdate=28 January 2017 }} 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Farmer|first1=Penelope|title=Two, or The Book of Twins & Doubles|date=1996|publisher=Virago Press|location=London|page=11}} 3. ^1 {{cite book |title=Something About the Author |series=Something About the Author Series |date=1999 |volume=105 |isbn=0787621269 |publisher=Gale |page=64 }} 4. ^Anita Silvey, ed: Children's books and their creators (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1995), p. 238. 5. ^{{cite web|title=Blogger: User Profile: granny p|url=http://www.blogger.com/profile/10208296185844897146|website=www.blogger.com|accessdate=18 February 2011}} 6. ^{{cite book |title=Writers, Critics, and Children |last=Penelope |first=Fisher |authorlink= |editors=in Geoff Fox, Graham Hammond, Terry Jones, Frederic Smith, Kenneth Sterck |year=1976 |publisher=Agathon Press |location=New York |isbn=0-87586-054-0 |pages=60 }} 7. ^Vulpes Libris [https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/in-conversation-with-penelope-farmer-2/ Retrieved 29 January 2017.] External links{{Portal |Children's literature |Speculative fiction }}
10 : 1939 births|British children's writers|British fantasy writers|British women writers|Living people|People from Westerham|Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford|British women children's writers|Women science fiction and fantasy writers|Alumni of Bedford College (London) |
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