Ann Bridge
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Peking in China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realised settings and demure social satire. She went on to write novels which take as the background of their protagonists' emotional lives a serious investigation of modern historical developments (such as the leap by which Turkey progressed from a feudal-style government to become a modern republic in which women enjoyed equality of rights and equality of opportunity).
also wrote thrillers centred on a female amateur detective, travel books, and family memoirs.
was a twentieth-century novelist who began by exploiting the milieu of the
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