| 词条 | Mollie Panter-Downes |
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Mary Patricia "Mollie" Panter-Downes (25 August 1906 – 22 January 1997) was a British novelist and columnist for The New Yorker. Aged sixteen, she wrote The Shoreless Sea which became a bestseller; eight editions were published in 1923 and 1924, and the book was serialised in The Daily Mirror. Her second novel The Chase was published in 1925. She was born to Major Edward Martin Panter-Downes (died 1914 at Mons) and Marie Kathleen Cowley who was of Irish origin.[1] After her marriage to Clare Robinson in 1927, the couple moved to Surrey, and in 1938 Panter-Downes began writing for the New Yorker, first a series of short stories, and from September 1939, a column entitled Letter from London, which she wrote until 1984. The collected columns were later published as Letters from England (1940) and London War Notes (1972).[2] After visiting Ootacamund, in India, she wrote about the town, known to all as Ooty, in her New Yorker columns. This material was later published as Ooty Preserved. Panter-Downes died in Compton, Surrey, aged 90. Selected works
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The last short story in Minnie's Room, called "The Empty Place" and written in 1965, has a character called Harry Potter. References1. ^{{cite web|title=Major Edward Martin Panter-Downes|date=7 October 2013|url=http://www.panterfamily.org.uk/panter-docs/36-panter-downes,-edward-martin.html|publisher=panterfamily.org.uk|accessdate=6 August 2016}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Beauman|first=Nicola|title=Downes, Mary Patricia [Mollie] Panter- (1906–1997)|editor=H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|series=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65675|accessdate=24 August 2009}}
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