Ursula Orange (1909–1955)
Auteur van Tom Tiddler's Ground
Werken van Ursula Orange
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- Officiële naam
- Orange, Ursula Marguerite Dorothea
- Geboortedatum
- 1909
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1955
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Beroepen
- novelist
- Relaties
- Tindall, Gillian (daughter)
- Korte biografie
- Ursula Orange was the daughter of Sir Hugh William Orange, who won his knighthood for services to education in India.
She married Dennis Tindall, with whom she had a daughter, the writer Gillian Tindall.
Orange wrote a total of six novels in a lightly comic vein that concealed serious intentions, according to blogger Furrowed Middlebrow. Her protagonists tended to be young women grappling with the challenges of jobs, children, and romantic entanglements. Her first published novel was Begin Again (1936). Tom Tiddler's Ground (1941), her third novel, unfolds during World War II, with a dark undercurrent to the surface comedy; it was published in the USA under the title Ask Me No Questions. The other books were To Sea in a Sieve (1937), Company in the Evening (1944), Have Your Cake (1942), and Portrait of Adrian (1945). According to her daughter, in her 2009 autobiography Footprints in Paris, Ursula's death at age 46 in 1955 was by suicide.
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- 5
- Leden
- 133
- Populariteit
- #152,660
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 7
The two other young women are friends of Jane and Florence who did not go to university and who each live at home in the country with their parents. Leslie is dying to move to London on her own and go to art school. She has invited Jane and Florence to a weekend party to help convince her mother of how wonderful it would be to live on her own in London. Sylvia, the other friend, has adopted all the modern ideas about free love and the independence of women, but she and her boyfriend, who are getting serious, mostly just talk about these matters, rather than acting. When she sees her younger sister acting on some of these new ideas, Sylvia begins to rethink her position.
At first I thought the book was a bit dated, but it really grew on me. In the end I enjoyed it as a witty diversion and a visit back to a simpler more innocent time. It was a charming read.
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