Helen Dunmore

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Standard Name: Dunmore, Helen
Birth Name: Helen Dunmore
Married Name: Helen Charnley
HD first established herself as a poet, but became internationally known as a novelist when she won the Orange Prize in 1996. A prolific writer, she also had considerable success with books for children.
Colour photograph of Helen Dunmore opening the refurbished Henleaze Library in Redland, Bristol. in April 2008. She stands looking to her right with a couple of the audience visible behind her. Her pale blonde hair falls straight along her shoulders, and she wears a silver and zebra-print blouse.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Kate Clanchy
Lucy Scholes wrote: The gloriously heady heat, high-running tempers and emotions are offset by the cool lightness of Clanchy's prose . . . . Meeting the English is an utter delight.
Scholes, Lucy. “Short Reviews. Meeting the English, Kate Clanchy”. The Observer, p. 41.
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Helen Dunmore called...
Literary responses Catherine Byron
Critics praised CB generously for this collection. A fellow-poet, Helen Dunmore in Poetry Review, called her a taut, brilliantly focussed . . . very exact poet,
“Advertisement: The Getting of Vellum. Poems by Catherine Byron; About the Poet; Sample Poem; Reviews”. Salmon Poetry Online Bookshop.
and critic Adrian Henri declared her remarkable for...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre has been filmed repeatedly for both television and the cinema, as well as being made the subject of musicals, plays, and a ballet performed by the London Children's Ballet in 1997 and 2008...
Textual Production Gillian Allnutt
GA 's poetry volume Sojourner was published with recommendations from Helen Dunmore among others.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

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Texts

Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Little, Brown, 1996.
Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Penguin, 1997.
Dunmore, Helen. The Apple Fall. Bloodaxe Books, 1983.
Dunmore, Helen. The Betrayal. Fig Tree, 2010.
Dunmore, Helen. The Greatcoat. Hammer Books, 2012.
Dunmore, Helen. The Lie. Cornerstone Hutchinson, 2014.
Clanchy, Kate et al. “The Lyrics”. Magma, Vol.
13
, poetrymagazines.org.uk, pp. 11-18.
Dunmore, Helen. The Malarkey. Bloodaxe Books, 2012.
Dunmore, Helen. “The Mironov Legacy”. BBC Radio Four.
Dunmore, Helen. The Raw Garden. Bloodaxe Books, 1988.
Dunmore, Helen. The Sea Skater. Bloodaxe Books, 1986.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Viking, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Quality Paperbacks Direct, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. The Tide Knot. HarperCollins, 2007.
Dunmore, Helen. With Your Crooked Heart. Viking, 1999.
Dunmore, Helen. Your Blue-Eyed Boy. Viking, 1998.
Dunmore, Helen. Zennor in Darkness. Viking-Penguin, 1993.