The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot - Softcover

Wilson, Angus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140015027 ISBN 13: 9780140015027

Publisher: Penguin, 1982

Synopsis

The story of a woman displaced from paradise. For Meg Eliot, life with her successful husband, Bill, was one of elegance and equilibrium. Suddenly, everything changes when Bill is the accidental victim of an assassin's bullet. The author also wrote "Hemlock and After" and "No Laughing Matter".

About this title

About the Author:

One of Britain's most distinguished novelists Sir Angus Wilson was born in 1913. Educated at Westminster and Merton College, Oxford he joined the British Museum as a cataloguer before being called for service in 1941. His literary career began with a collection of short-stories published in 1949. These were followed by other short-story collections, novels and plays.

Co-founder with Malcolm Bradbury of the MA programme in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, Wilson was appointed professor in 1967. Chair of many literary panels, including the Booker prize, and campaigner for homosexual equality he was knighted in 1980. He died in 1991.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140015027
• ISBN 13: 9780140015027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352