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There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

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The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

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Victoria Glendinning

Victoria Glendinning

Born: April 23, 1937 (age 89)
Known for:
  1. Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity (2012)
  2. Leonard Woolf (2006)
  3. Edith Sitwell a Unicorn Among Lions (1981)
  4. Elizabeth Bowen (1977)
  5. Rebecca West (1986)

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