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born 1948 England

Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, journalist, and literary critic. Her memoir In My Father's House: Elegy for an Obsessive Love (2007) won the 2008 Ackerley Prize.

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Arthur Benson, one of the coterie of clever, literary-minded younger men whose company the ageing novelist relished, found himself incapable of sharing the enthusiasm of Percy Lubbock and Howard Sturgis for the later novels.

Usually dismissive of other female writers, Riding had praised Stein in the final chapter of A Survey of Modernist Poetry for using a language of divine ordinariness. It was Laura's idea that they should invite Miss Stein to publish something with the Seizin Press.

Robert Graves: Life on the Edge (1995)

Eccentricity has not always been encouraged by the prim editors of Debrett. Invited to list his recreations, my father omitted motorbikes and wrote instead: shooting, deerstalking and tennis. Identifying himself as Lord of the Manor of Thrumpton provided a greater source of satisfaction.

Thrumpton Hall (2007)

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