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
community in - BirthName: Mary Dolling Sanders
- Nickname: CottieHer family were great givers of nicknames; this was hers.
- Self-constructed: Mary Annewas called Mary Anne as a girl, although Anne was not one of her baptismal names.
- Married: O'Malley; Mary O'MalleyThe was what her friends called her in adult life.
- Pseudonym: Ann BridgeBridge End in Surrey, where she lived after she was married.formed her pseudonym from her own chosen second name, Anne, and fromShe kept this identity a closely guarded secret, and even under this shelter allowed the to scrutinise her novels before publication because of her 's Foreign Office career.
- Titled: LadyAfter thirty years of marriagebecame Lady O'Malley when her husband received his knighthood.
- Indexed: Mary Anne O'Malley