Dame Margaret Drabble

b. 1939

Dame Margaret Drabble was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1973.


Articles by Dame Margaret Drabble

What’s so great about Proust?

Margaret Drabble leads a discussion of Proust's work.

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Angus Wilson: A Celebration

Peter J. Conradi, Margaret Drabble, Edmund Gordon and Ian McEwan on Angus Wilson.

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Portraits of Writers: Doris Lessing

Margaret Drabble discusses Doris Lessing and portraiture.

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The golden sketchbook – writers’ portraits

What can portraits tell us about writers? The RSL and National Portrait Gallery joined forces to find out

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The RSL’s Education Programme

Whoosh!
The RSL’s education programme has taken off, carrying leading writers into deprived schools. Maggie Fergusson reports.

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The RSL’s Education Programme

Whoosh!
The RSL’s education programme has taken off, carrying leading writers into deprived schools. Maggie Fergusson reports.

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