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Also Known As Penelope Dimont • Penelope Fletcher • Penelope Ruth Mortimer
Born September 19, 1918 • Rhyl • Wales
Died October 19, 1999 (aged 81) • London • England
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (1979)
Notable Works “Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting”
Notable Family Members spouse Sir John Mortimer
Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
John Wain
British critic and writer
A.N. Wilson
English writer
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Penelope Fitzgerald
British author
Novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
English writer
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Sir Angus Wilson
British author
Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
Evelyn Waugh
English author
Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
British author
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
British statesman and author
D.M. Thomas
British author
J.R. Ackerley
British writer and editor
Margaret Forster
British author
Powell, Anthony
Anthony Powell
British author
Nancy Mitford, 1970.
Nancy Mitford
British writer
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
Paul Bailey
British author
Maurice Baring
British author
Sheila Kaye-Smith
British author