Papers of Gerda Charles c. 1959-1996

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Papers of Gerda Charles c. 1959-1996

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Charles, Gerda, 1914-1996

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Gerda Charles was the pseudonym of Edna Lipson, an Anglo-Jewish writer born in Liverpool in 1914. Educated in Liverpool schools until the age of 15, she then moved to London with her widowed mother, where they ran a boarding house. She studied further in evening classes at London colleges. Her first novel, The True Voice was published in 1959. A Slanting Light won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1963 and The Destiny Waltz won the Whitbread award for 1971. In 1991 Gerda Charles described h...

Charles, Gerda, 1914-1996

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6780mtz (person)

Gerda Charles was the pseudonym of Edna Lipson, an Anglo-Jewish writer born in Liverpool in 1914. Educated in Liverpool schools until the age of 15, she then moved to London with her widowed mother, where they ran a boarding house. She studied further in evening classes at London colleges. Her first novel, The True Voice was published in 1959. A Slanting Light won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1963 and The Destiny Waltz won the Whitbread award for 1971. In 1991 Gerda Charles described h...