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词条 Gillian Freeman
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Private life

  4. Works

  5. References

  6. External links

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Gillian Freeman (5 December 1929[1] – 23 February 2019) was a British writer.

Early life

Born to Jewish parents, Dr Jack Freeman, a dentist who had been a physician, and his wife Freda (née Davids) in North London,[2] she graduated in English and philosophy from the University of Reading in 1951.[3] She then taught at a school in the East End and worked as a copywriter and a newspaper reporter.[3]

Career

The Liberty Man (1955) was Freeman's first book, written while working as a secretary to the novelist Louis Golding; it was about a love affair between a schoolteacher and a sailor doomed by the class system.[3][6]

One of her best known books was the novel The Leather Boys (1961), published under the pseudonym Eliot George, after the novelist George Eliot, a story of a gay relationship between two young working-class men, one married and the other a biker,[6] which was later turned into a film for which she wrote the screenplay, this time under her own name. The novel was commissioned by the publisher Anthony Blond, her literary agent,[3] who wanted a story about a "Romeo and Romeo in the South London suburbs".[4][5] Her non-fiction book The Undergrowth of Literature (1967), was a pioneering study of pornography.[3][6]

The Alabaster Egg (1970) is a tragic romance about a Jewish woman set in Nazi Germany.[3] In 1978, on another commission from Blond, she wrote a fictional diary, Nazi Lady: The Diaries of Elisabeth von Stahlenberg, 1938–48. Freeman's authorship was not at first revealed and many readers assumed it was genuine;[7] it was included in a 2004 anthology of war diaries.[3][8]

In addition to novels, Freeman wrote screenplays including That Cold Day in the Park, a 1969 film directed by Robert Altman, the scenarios for two ballets by Kenneth MacMillan, Isadora and Mayerling,[6] and with her husband, Ballet Genius (1988), portraits of 20 outstanding ballet dancers.[3] Her final book{{cn|date=February 2019}} was But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury (2006), a fictional study of the Bloomsbury Group.[9]

Private life

Freeman married Edward Thorpe, a novelist and the ballet critic of the Evening Standard, in 1955.[10] The couple had two daughters, the actresses Harriet Thorpe and Matilda Thorpe.[3]

She died on 23 February 2019 from complications of dementia.[3][11]

Works

  • The Liberty Man, 1955
  • Fall of Innocence, 1956
  • Jack Would be a Gentleman, 1959
  • The Story of Albert Einstein, 1960
  • The Leather Boys, 1961
  • The Campaign, 1963
  • The Leather Boys (screenplay), 1964
  • Only Lovers Left Alive (screenplay), 1965
  • The Leader, 1965
  • The Undergrowth of Literature, 1967
  • That Cold Day in the Park (screenplay), 1969
  • An Evasion of Women (short play, alongside pieces by Shena Mackay, Margaret Drabble, and Maureen Duffy), 1969[12]
  • The Alabaster Egg, 1970
  • I Want What I Want (screenplay), 1972
  • The Marriage Machine, 1975
  • The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil, 1976
  • Mayerling (ballet scenario), 1978[13]
  • Intimate Letters (ballet scenario), 1978[14]
  • Nazi Lady: The Diaries of Elisabeth von Stahlenberg, 1938–48, 1979
  • An Easter Egg Hunt, 1981
  • Isadora (ballet scenario), 1981[15]
  • Lovechild, 1984
  • Life Before Man, 1986
  • Ballet Genius: Twenty Great Dancers of the Twentieth Century (with Edward Thorpe), 1988
  • Termination Rock, 1989
  • His Mistress's Voice, 2000
  • But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury, 2006

References

1. ^International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004, Routledge, p. 187.
2. ^'Marriages', The Times, 13 September 1955.
3. ^Harrison Smith, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gillian-freeman-whose-novel-leather-boys-was-a-gay-landmark-dies-at-89/2019/03/11/9ee08e52-4407-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html "Gillian Freeman, whose novel 'Leather Boys' was a gay landmark, dies at 89"], The Washington Post, 11 March 2019.
4. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/03/04/gillian-freeman-author-whose-flair-detail-shone-historical-novels/ "Gillian Freeman, author whose flair for detail shone through in historical novels and in a ‘Romeo and Romeo’ love story – obituary"], The Telegraph, 4 March 2019.
5. ^Martin Foreman, Review of The Leather Boys (Gillian Freeman) (1986), [https://web.archive.org/web/19990202232437/http://www.martinforeman.com/pages/mfrvleat.html archived] at the Wayback Machine on 2 February 1999.
6. ^Victor E. Neuburg, The Popular Press Companion to Popular Literature, Popular Press, 1983, {{ISBN|0-87972-233-9}}, p. 97.
7. ^Anthony Blond, 'Glory Boys', The Sunday Times, 13 June 2004.
8. ^Joel Rickett, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/dec/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview29 "The Bookseller "], The Guardian, 11 December 2004.
9. ^Bethany Layne, "'They Leave out the Person to Whom Things Happened': Re-Reading the Biographical Subject in Sigrid Nunez's Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (1998)", in: Bloomsbury Influences: Papers from the Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference, Bath Spa University, 5–6 May 2011, ed. E.H. Wright, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2014, {{ISBN|9781443854344}}, pp. 30–45, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Js8xBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 p. 41].
10. ^'Marriages', The Times, 13 September 1955.
11. ^Neil Genzlinger, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/obituaries/gillian-freeman-dead.html "Gillian Freeman, Groundbreaking Novelist on a Gay Theme, Dies at 89"], The New York Times, 8 March 2019.
12. ^Irving Wardle, 'Experiment and Expansion', The Times, 1 March 1969.
13. ^Gillian Freeman, 'The making of Mayerling', The Times, 8 February 1978.
14. ^John Percival, 'Sadler's Wells: Intimate Letters', The Times, 11 October 1978.
15. ^John Percival, 'Isadora, Covent Garden', The Times, 1 May 1981.

External links

  • Listing of Gillian Freeman archives at Reading University Library
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