Frankau, Pamela, 1908-1967

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Dates:
Birth 1908-01-03
Death 1967-06-08
English,

Biographical notes:

Epithet: novelist

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x0002da

English author and novelist.

The daughter of Gilbert Frankau, the English popular novelist, and Dorothea Drummond Black, Frankau was educated in Sussex; of Jewish descent, both Pamela and her father converted to Roman Catholicism in 1942. She wrote more than thirty novels, several dozen articles, and short stories. Her most popular novel and often regarded as her best work is The willow cabin (1949). Frankau usually wrote three thousand words a day, primarily in long hand.

From the description of Pamela Frankau papers, 1948-1967. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 32569733

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Subjects:

  • Women authors, English
  • Women novelists

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Places:

  • Penn, Buckinghamshire (as recorded)
  • England (as recorded)

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