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Fiona MacCarthy was born in Sutton, Surrey, in 1940, [1] into an upper-class background, from which she spent much of her life escaping. Her father, Gerald MacCarthy, was an officer in the Royal Artillery and was killed in action in North Africa during the Second World War in 1943. [2] Fiona MacCarthy, her sister and mother, Yolande, lived in ...
Mar 24, 2020 · Jan Marsh. 24 March 2020. Fiona MacCarthy. Photo: Eleni Stefanou; courtesy Faber & Faber. Fiona MacCarthy, who died last month at the age of 80, was for the past quarter-century an outstanding biographer of cultural figures, as well as a champion of contemporary design and craft production. Her best books were lives of Eric Gill, William Morris ...
Fiona MacCarthy. Elected: 1997. Year of birth: 1940. Year of death: 2020. Fiona MacCarthy was a design historian, biographer and cultural critic. Author of Obituary: Marina Warner. Obituary : Fiona MacCarthy was made a Fellow of the RSL in 1997. Her work over more than fifty years describes a satisfyingly shapely arc, from incisive writings on ...
Mar 6, 2020 · Gerald MacCarthy, a Royal Artillery officer, was killed in action in North Africa. She and her baby sister grew up in London and Scotland and Fiona studied at Oxford. In 1958, following time at a ...
Mar 3, 2020 · Dr Fiona MacCarthy (1940 - 2020) We are saddened to learn of the death of writer and LMH Honorary Fellow, Dr Fiona MacCarthy OBE, FRCA, FRSL. Fiona, who was 80, was a journalist and writer about design, as well as a prolific and distinguished biographer. On leaving LMH she became the Design Correspondent of the Guardian.
Mar 3, 2020 · Tribute to Fiona MacCarthy. 03/03/2020. We were saddened to hear of the death of journalist, biographer and past C20 Society president Fiona MacCarthy, who passed away peacefully last week at the age of 80 after a long illness. Fiona was the author of outstanding biographies of many designers key to the history of modernism.
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Jan 1, 2002 · Fiona MacCarthy. This biography reinterprets the great man's life and poetry. MacCarthy casts a fresh eye on Byron's childhood in Scotland, his embattled relations with his mother and his series of relationships with adolescent boys. 688 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 2002.
