Barbara Skelton (1916–1996)
Auteur van Tears Before Bedtime and Weep No More
Werken van Barbara Skelton
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- Geboortedatum
- 1916-06-26
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1996-01-27
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Pershore, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
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India
Yugoslavia
Egypt
USA (toon alle 7)
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- novelist
short story writer - Relaties
- Connolly, Cyril (first spouse)
Weidenfeld, George (second spouse)
Jackson, Derek (third spouse) - Korte biografie
- From her New York Times obituary: Barbara Skelton was a writer whose best subject was her own life of passionate abandon. Her two volumes of memoirs -- Tears Before Bedtime (1987) and Weep No More (1989) -- were savored for their malicious descriptions of her three husbands and many lovers, including King Farouk of Egypt and a police officer who came to investigate a burglary at her home. She also wrote two novels, A Young Girl's Touch (1956) and the darkly humorous A Love Match (1969), though the latter was withdrawn because of threats of legal action by a former friend. A collection of stories, Born Losers, was published in 1965. Her two memoirs became the basis for the 1995 film "A Business Affair."
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- 6
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- 45
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- #340,917
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She wed prominent critic Cyril Connolly in 1950, a marriage which ended in 1956. At the time of her engagement to Connolly in 1950, King Farouk took his much publicised "bachelor party" in Europe, and invited Skelton to join his entourage as he traveled across Europe.[9] Connolly encouraged his fiancée to go with the king as she recalled: "He thought I could get money from Farouk for pay for our honeymoon. He had no idea how tight this king was".[9]
Despite encouraging his fiancée to go with Farouk, Connolly became consumed with jealousy and started stalking the royal party as Skelton remembered: "Cyril turned out to be more jealous than I first thought."[10] Despite the fact that he was worth $140,000,000 million US dollars (a sum equivalent to a billion dollars today), Farouk stole rings belonging to Skelton as she remembered: "One night he asked to see these lovely eternity rings I had for years and years. I never got them back. I'm sure he took them and had them woven into Narriman's famous bejewelled wedding dress".[11] Skelton recalled: "After Biarritz Farouk and his group kept on to Cannes and Cyril and I went to the Dordogne. I was glad to get way, especially from the press. I had become the 'mystery woman'."
She married George Weidenfeld, a publisher, in 1956; that marriage ended in 1961. She met Weidenfeld when he agreed to publish A Young Girl's Touch.[4] As divorce was very difficult to obtain in Britain until 1967, it was necessary to prove adultery conclusively to the courts to be granted a divorce. In 1956, her marriage to Connolly was ended when evidence of her adultery with Weidenfeld was presented to the court and in 1961 her marriage to Weidenfeld was ended when evidence of her adultery with Connolly was presented to the court.[4]
Her final marriage in 1966 to Derek Jackson, a physicist, was brief. The alimony she obtained from Jackson allowed her to live in Paris in a relative comfort.[4] She had affairs with, among others, Peter Quennell, Feliks Topolski, Charles Addams, Bernard Frank, John Sutro and Alan Ross. Anthony Powell used her as the basis for Pamela Flitton, a character in his novel sequence a Dance to the Music of Time.[12] Powell also wrote a critical essay on Skelton, included in the collection Miscellaneous Verdicts.… (meer)