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- catalog abstract ""Mary Renault wrote so sympathetically and with such candor about the male world of Ancient Greece and about love between men that many readers believed the best-selling author of The Last of the Wine, The King Must Die, and The Persian Boy must be a man. In reality, Mary Renault was the pseudonym for a surprising and intensely private woman, born Mary Challans in a genteel London suburb." "In this first biography, David Sweetman, who met and filmed Mary Renault for the BBC in 1981 and corresponded with her until her death in 1983, unravels the mystery of this unseen woman." "She began as a bookish, withdrawn child of disappointed parents and became a standard-bearer of the sexual revolution. She discovered scholarship at Oxford, in the days when women had only just been admitted, but abandoned the academic world for a nursing career. When, in 1947, she won an MGM award for $150,000, she embarked for South Africa with her lifelong companion, Julie Mullard, never to return to England. A revolutionary in sexual matters, she was accused of being politically reactionary; a passionate believer in Greek ideals of democracy and justice, she was among the first to join Black Sash, the women's movement that was in the forefront of the fight against apartheid, but over the years her disillusionment with radical politics led her to withdraw into a fictional world of her own creation." "With full access to Mary Renault's letters and papers and to the story of her long romance with Julie, David Sweetman reveals how, in its concerns, her life cannot be divorced from her fiction, combining a brilliantly textured picture of her life with a revealing analysis of the novels."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b4470865.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""Mary Renault wrote so sympathetically and with such candor about the male world of Ancient Greece and about love between men that many readers believed the best-selling author of The Last of the Wine, The King Must Die, and The Persian Boy must be a man. In reality, Mary Renault was the pseudonym for a surprising and intensely private woman, born Mary Challans in a genteel London suburb." "In this first biography, David Sweetman, who met and filmed Mary Renault for the BBC in 1981 and corresponded with her until her death in 1983, unravels the mystery of this unseen woman." "She began as a bookish, withdrawn child of disappointed parents and became a standard-bearer of the sexual revolution. She discovered scholarship at Oxford, in the days when women had only just been admitted, but abandoned the academic world for a nursing career. When, in 1947, she won an MGM award for $150,000, she embarked for South Africa with her lifelong companion, Julie Mullard, never to return to England. A revolutionary in sexual matters, she was accused of being politically reactionary; a passionate believer in Greek ideals of democracy and justice, she was among the first to join Black Sash, the women's movement that was in the forefront of the fight against apartheid, but over the years her disillusionment with radical politics led her to withdraw into a fictional world of her own creation." "With full access to Mary Renault's letters and papers and to the story of her long romance with Julie, David Sweetman reveals how, in its concerns, her life cannot be divorced from her fiction, combining a brilliantly textured picture of her life with a revealing analysis of the novels."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Forward: We speculate about you -- Mothers and daughters -- Oxford mad me -- Challans-Mullard -- Mullard-Renault -- War -- Hard winters -- Very gay and partyish -- View from the Acropolis -- Labyrinth -- Delos -- Apollo -- Another country -- To be loved by Alexander -- That really bucks me up.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-313) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 322 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Mary Renault.".
- catalog identifier "0151931100".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mary Renault.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt Brace & Co.,".
- catalog relation "Mary Renault.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "South Africa".
- catalog subject "823/.912 B 20".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality and literature History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Lesbians Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Lesbians South Africa Biography.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR6035.E55 Z87 1993".
- catalog subject "Renault, Mary Biography.".
- catalog subject "Renault, Mary.".
- catalog subject "Women novelists, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Forward: We speculate about you -- Mothers and daughters -- Oxford mad me -- Challans-Mullard -- Mullard-Renault -- War -- Hard winters -- Very gay and partyish -- View from the Acropolis -- Labyrinth -- Delos -- Apollo -- Another country -- To be loved by Alexander -- That really bucks me up.".
- catalog title "Mary Renault : a biography / David Sweetman.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".