Magdalen King-Hall (1904–1971)
Auteur van Dagboek van een meisje van stand uit de 18e eeuw
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- King-Hall, Magdalen
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Knox, Cleone
- Geboortedatum
- 1904-07-22
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1971-01-01
- Graflocatie
- Headborough House, Waterford, Ireland
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Ireland
UK - Geboorteplaats
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- County Waterford, Ireland
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Sudan
Headborough House, Waterford, Ireland
Hove, England, UK - Beroepen
- historical novelist
journalist
drama critic
children's book author - Relaties
- King-Hall, Stephen (brother)
- Korte biografie
- Magdalen King-Hall was born in London and as a girl lived in Australia, where her father, Admiral Sir George Fowler King-Hall, served as the Royal Navy's Commander-in-Chief. She was educated at Downe House and St. Leonard's near St. Andrews, and became a journalist and writer. In 1929, she married a distant cousin, Patrick Perceval Maxwell, with whom she had three children. They lived for a while in the Sudan, where Maxwell worked for the Sudan Cotton Plantation Syndicate. In 1932 they returned to England and a few years later moved to Northern Ireland, where Maxwell farmed near his family home. She wrote numerous successful historical novels, nonfiction, and children's books. Her debut novel, Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion, 1764-65 (1924), written under the pseudonym Cleone Knox, describing the experiences of young woman on a Grand Tour of Europe, was enthusiastically received by reviewers, some of whom believed it was an actual 18th-century document, and became a bestseller. Her 1954 novel, Life And Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton (aka The Wicked Lady), was twice adapted into films. Her sister Lou (Olga Louisa Elizabeth) Hall-King also became a novelist. Her brother Stephen Hall-King was a British naval officer and writer.
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- Populariteit
- #118,259
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
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- ISBNs
- 15
Miss King-Hall's imaginary diarist, Cleone Knox, supposedly had traveled around 18th-century Europe, meeting and recording her impressions of Voltaire and King Louis XV of France, among others. Critics declared the diary authentic partly because it contained obsolete expressions and spelling and lots of capital letters.
"Her diary must take its place beside that of Mr. Pepys," one critic wrote. Another opined, "No modern girl will ever write a diary like this. Cleone Knox breathes the very spirit of the witty, robust, patriotic, wicked, hard-drinking, hard-swearing 18th century." The diary went through several printings on both sides of the Atlantic.
Six months after its publication, 19-year-old Miss King-Hall admitted that she had written the diary because she was bored. And she did have a lively imagination. About her visit with Voltaire, she wrote, "The great man received us in a chintz dressing gown. ... Sometimes affable, more often peevish. To tell the truth, he reminded me of nothing so much as a chattering old magpie. We listened, silent, with the Respect which is due to Genius, however Wearisome it may be."
source http://online.wsj.com/article/deja_vu.html
Review of it (with a brief excerpt)
http://talkingbookshop.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/the-diary-of-a-young-lady-of-fas...… (meer)