Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
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Cultural formation | Mary Renault | MR
and Julie Mullard
became citizens of South Africa. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 138 |
Cultural formation | Mary Renault | MR
lived in a lifelong lesbian relationship. According to her biographer David Sweetman, neither she nor her partner, Julie Mullard
, imagined that they were doing anything unnatural: [t]hey did not think of themselves as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Renault | MR
approached Julie Mullard
, a senior nurse at the Radcliffe Infirmary, with an invitation to take a part in a play she had written. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 48 |
Health | Mary Renault | |
Occupation | Mary Renault | In Durban, South Africa, in 1948, MR
and Julie Mullard
formed a company, CAM Construction
, to buy land and build houses. Their two partners, Peter Albrecht and Jack Corke, proved to be dishonest... |
politics | Mary Renault | MR
and Julie Mullard
joined the South African Women's Defence of the Constitution League
(the Black Sash) as soon as it was formed. They attended meetings, picketed, and handed out leaflets. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 182-3 |
politics | Mary Renault | MR
and Julie Mullard
joined the Progressive Party in Cape Town, formed to offer the white community a chance to assist anti-apartheid efforts without the fear of being overrun by a Black majority. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 198 |
Publishing | Mary Renault | MR
's London agent, Spencer Curtis Brown
, transferred her for this book to a younger colleague, Juliet O'Hea
. O'Hea proved to be very sensitive and sympathetic to MR
, and eventually became her... |
Residence | Mary Renault | MR
emigrated with Julie Mullard
to Durban in South Africa. She lived in South Africa until her death. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 116, 304 |
Residence | Mary Renault | After a holiday in Rhodesia, MR
and Julie Mullard
decided to move from Durban to a spot near Cape Town: Daisy Nook, a cottage which they renamed Delos, in a sheltered cove called... |
Residence | Mary Renault | MR
and Julie Mullard
moved to an architect's house on Atholl Road, in the foothills of Table Mountain, overlooking Camps Bay near Cape Town. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 283 |
Textual Features | Mary Renault | Biographer David Sweetman
considers an episode in the novel between the lesbian nurse Colonna and Valentine, a supervisor of nurses, to be a recreation of MR
's first sexual encounter with Julie Mullard
, who... |
Travel | Mary Renault | MR
and Julie Mullard
took their first European holiday at Equihen, near Boulogne in France. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 72-3 |
Travel | Mary Renault | MR
and Julie Mullard
set out from South Africa for a four-month visit to Italy and Greece. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 164 |
Travel | Mary Renault | MR
and Julie Mullard
took their second trip to Greece. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 217-19, xii |
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