Gender | Female |
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Weekday | Sunday |
Date | Dec. 17, 1916 |
Time | 3 p.m. |
Daylight Saving | No |
City | Lincoln, England, United Kingdom |
Geo-location | 53ºN13'36.59", |
Timezone | Europe/London |
City | Lincoln, England, United Kingdom |
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Timezone | Europe/London |
Time (Europe/London) | Dec. 17, 1916, 03:00:00 PM |
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Time (UTC) | Dec. 17, 1916, 03:00:00 PM |
Time (LMT) | Dec. 17, 1916, 02:57:51 PM |
Time (Julian) | 2421215.125 |
LMT Correction | -0.0358 Hrs |
Ayanmsha | True Chitra - 22º40'47.89" |
English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer, who won the Booker Prize for 1979 with Offshore, a novel that takes place among residents of houseboats in Battersea in 1961. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels". In 1942 she married Desmond Fitzgerald, whom she had met in 1940 while they were both at Oxford. They had three children, a son, Valpy, and two daughters, Tina and Maria. The couple lived for eleven years in a council flat—public housing. In order to provide for her family, during the 1960s she taught at the Italia Conti Academy, a drama school, and at Queen's Gate School, where her pupils included Camilla Shand (later Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.) She also taught at a posh cram school, where her pupils included Anna Wintour, Edward St Aubyn, and Helena Bonham Carter (in fact, she continued to teach until she was seventy years old). She died on 28 April 2000, aged 83, in London, England. Link to Wikipedia biography
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Prize |
Jan. 1, 1979 |
Work : Prize 1979 (Booker Prize) |
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Marriage |
Aug. 15, 1942 |
Relationship : Marriage 15 August 1942 (Desmond Fitzgerald) . |
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Birth Child |
Jan. 30, 1947 |
Family : Change in family responsibilities 30 January 1947 (Birth of son, Edmund Valpy) . |
2 |
Birth Child |
Jan. 26, 1950 |
Family : Change in family responsibilities 26 January 1950 (Birth of daughter, Christina/Tina) . |
3 |
Birth Child |
Jan. 1, 1953 |
Family : Change in family responsibilities 1953 (Birth of daughter, Maria) |
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Partner Death |
Jan. 1, 1976 |
Death of Mate 1976 (Desmond Fitzgerald) |
2 |
Unspecified |
April 28, 2000 |
Death, Cause unspecified 28 April 2000 (Age 83) . |