About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford, Fellows of St Hilda's College, Oxford, Principals of St Hilda's College, Oxford, Susan Blackmore, Barbara Pym, Barbara Levick, D. K. Broster, Susanna Clarke, Miriam Defensor Santiago, Vera Baird, Sheila Rowbotham, Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, Susan Kramer, Murder of Rachel McLean, Jenny Barraclough, Jo Shapcott, Gillian Shephard, William Boyd, A. E. Levett, Margaret MacMillan, Meg Hillier, Katherine Parkinson, College Girls, Kate Millett, Haya bint Al Hussein, Wendy Cope, Margaret Gelling, Bettany Hughes, Zeinab Badawi, Kathy Wilkes, Val McDermid, Tsuda Umeko, Hermione Lee, Gillian Rose, Jacqueline Rose, Helen Gardner, Kate Barker, Cecil Woodham-Smith, Nicola LeFanu, Mikita Brottman, Betty Radice, Juliet E. McKenna, Helen Jackson, Victoria Hislop, Fiona Caldicott, Elspeth Kennedy, Dorothy Whitelock, Ann Thwaite, Lettice Curtis, Rosalind Miles, Helen Williams, Gwenllian Lansdown, Adele Geras, Jenny Joseph, Sheila Forbes, Angela Lambert, Anne Darquier, Sarah Mukherjee, Kate Fenton, Marilyn Butler, Jenny Wormald, Elinor Shaffer, Vivienne Frances Faull, Gillian King, Barbara Everett, Catherine Heath. Excerpt: Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time. For the next decade, she published short stories from the Strange universe, but it was not until 2003 that Bloomsbury bought her manuscript and began work on its publication. The novel became a bestseller. Two years later, she published a collection of her short stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (2006). Both Clarke's novel and her short stories are set in a magical England and written in a pastiche of th...