Rose Tremain

RT is a contemporary novelist and short-story writer whose first book was a history of the feminist movement in Britain. She teaches creative writing, and she has also published fiction for young people, plays for radio and television, and an unusual early memoir. Her novels (some of them by most definitions historical, though this is a term she detests) aim to take her readers to places where she cannot literally go herself, sometimes to witness great events or experience shifts in the human condition presented from the off-centre viewpoint of characters whom most would think inconsiderable.
  • BirthName: Rosemary Thomson
  • Nickname: Rosie
  • Self-constructed: Rose
    She never felt comfortable with her given name or the abbreviation which followed her from home to school. Her years until the age of twenty, she wrote, felt like a long journey towards the one-syllable noun I could properly own.
    Tremain, Rose. Rosie. Scenes from a Vanished Life. Chatto, 2018.
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  • Married: Tremain; Dudley

Milestones

2 August 1943

Rose Thomson (later RT ) was born in London.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Biography

Birth and Family

2 August 1943

Rose Thomson (later RT ) was born in London.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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