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Isabel Diana Colegate FRSL (10 September 1931 – 12 March 2023) was a British author and literary agent.
Apr 18, 2019 · For anyone ready to attack me for spoilers, hold your fire — Colegate tells you all about Anthony and his disreputable military career in the first page or two. Rather than being about Anthony, Colgate is interested in the effect of his “secret” on his survivors and how they handle the truth.
Isabel Colegate (1931-2023) was a British author of novels about life among the upper classes in England during the 20th century. Her most widely known novel is The Shooting Party (1980).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 16, 2020 · The Orlando Trilogy —which has just been reissued in the UK by Bloomsbury (under the title Orlando King )—is British novelist Isabel Colegate’s masterwork about personal, political, and public mythmaking. Colegate takes the scaffolding for her tale from Sophocles’s Theban plays.
On the eighty-nine-year-old novelist’s best books. I sa bel Colegate, born in 1931, may well be the greatest living English novelist, and yet many readers have never heard of her. Nevertheless, she has always attracted discriminating admirers.
- David Platzer
Jun 26, 2020 · When Colegate wrote the King trilogy five decades ago, she was documenting the huge social, political and economic shifts that came in the wake of the Second World War, the repercussions of...
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Mar 15, 2023 · Isabel Colegate, who has died aged 91, was the author of 13 novels, including The Shooting Party (1980), an elegiac and highly acclaimed portrayal of a rapidly disappearing world of Edwardian...
