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Penelope Mortimer

Also known as: Penelope 1918-1999 Mortimer

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Penelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher) was a Welsh-born English journalist, biographer, and novelist. Her semi-autobiographical novel The Pumpkin Eater (1962) was made into a 1964 film of the same name.

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I HAVE to deal, under strict limitations of space, with a long life, almost the whole of its adult period passed in the exercise of sovereignty-a life which is in effect the history of England during forty-five years, abounding at the same time in personal interest, and the subject, both in its public and private aspects, of fierce and probably interminable controversies.

— from Queen Elizabeth

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Daddy's gone a-hunting

1958

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When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past. What was Kate Connelly, a tall, glamorous CPA, doing in her family's antique furniture museum when it exploded in the middle of the night? Why was Gus, a disgruntled retired employee, with her? Kate lies in a coma, unable to explain the tragedy.

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Queen Elizabeth

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The home

1904

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Gilman, one of the leading feminist theorists, argues for a reorganization of domestic work based on the guidelines of industrialism.

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