Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney

Markus Hiltl (Université de Paris IV Sorbonne)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2001

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Beryl Bainbridge, born on 21 November 1934 in Lancashire, spent many years of her life in Liverpool, although more recently she has lived in London. Many of her earliest novels treat her childhood experience and life in Liverpool, for example

An Awfully Big Adventure

and

The Dressmaker

. Her later novels, however, deal with real persons and real facts in British history. We can describe these novels, such as

According to Queeney

Master Georgie

, as historical novels, but perhaps the notion “faction”, a term composed of the two words “fact” and “fiction”, is more appropriate to her specific style of historical writing as it is less focused on understanding historical processes and the realistic painting of a historical picture and more inclined to use historical facts and…

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Citation: Hiltl, Markus. "According to Queeney". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 March 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12015, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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