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Frances Vernon was born on December 1 1963, and raised on the Sudbury Estate in Derbyshire. At the age of 18 she embarked upon a writing career, and would complete six novels in the space of ten years. Privileged Children (1982) won the Author”s Club Award for Best First Novel, and the Daily Express praised its “genuine sparkle and invention.” Gentleman and Players (1984) earned further glowing notices: in the Guardian Robert Nye predicted that “Frances Vernon should become a cult figure.” The Bohemian Girl followed in 1985, A Desirable Husband in 1987, The Marquis of Westmarch in 1989.Frances Vernon”s untimely death in 1991, aged just 27, was felt by all who knew her and her work to be especially poignant. Her final novel, The Fall of Doctor Onslow, was published posthumously in July 1994. Lucasta Miller for the Independent hailed it as “both a tragic reminder of what she might have gone on to do, and a testimony to what she did achieve.”Faber Finds is privileged to reissue Frances Vernon”s entire oeuvre, each edition including a new preface in which her life and work are discussed in interview by her mother Sheila Vernon and her first cousin the photographer and author Michael Marten.




6 Ebooks tarafından Frances Vernon

Frances Vernon: Privileged Children
Privileged Children, first published in 1982, was the brilliant debut fiction by the prodigiously gifted Frances Vernon (1963-1991), which earned her the Author's Club Award for Best First Novel …
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Frances Vernon: Gentlemen and Players
Gentleman and Players (1984) was the second novel by the prodigiously gifted Frances Vernon (1963-1991), and served confirmation of what the TLS called her 'highly original talent.'Three si …
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Frances Vernon: Bohemian Girl
The Bohemian Girl (1988), Frances Vernon's fourth novel, transports us to 1890s London to meet the young Diana Blentham, whom Vernon first introduced to readers – as a celebrated grande horizont …
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Frances Vernon: Desirable Husband
A Desirable Husband, first published in 1987, was the third novel by the prodigiously gifted Frances Vernon (1963-91). Finola Molloy – first introduced to readers as the daughter of the bohemian Alic …
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Frances Vernon: Marquis of Westmarch
The Marquis of Westmarch (1989) was Frances Vernon's fifth novel, and perhaps her most original and richly imagined work, fit to stand comparison with Theophile Gautier's famous gender-bend …
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Frances Vernon: Fall of Doctor Onslow
The Fall of Doctor Onslow (1994) was the sixth and final novel by Frances Vernon (1963-91). Published posthumously, it is perhaps her finest work. Set in 1858, it is the story of Dr George Onslow, re …
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