Reviews were gratifying (talent, wrote Ronald Blythe
, was too mild a word), and the novel won the Guardian Fiction Prize and (like its predecessor) was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury .
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Fictionalization
Margaret Catchpole
Richard Cobbold
, son of Elizabeth Cobbold
, and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC
's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was...
Textual Production
Bessie Head
Giles Gordon
had suggested she write a village book of the genre of Jan Myrdal's Report from a Chinese Village or Ronald Blythe
's Akenside. She would need, he said, to impose a...
Literary responses
Bessie Head
Ronald Blythe
wrote in a foreword to the eventual publication: Rarely has the cadence and the intelligence of the four generations which lived through these years been caught to accurately or so movingly.Elspeth Huxley
Timeline
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Texts
Cobbold, Richard et al. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. Boydell Press, 1979.
