Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalinis an English author and journalist, known for her biographies on Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, and Mary Wollstonecraft...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 June 1933
love normal people quite
I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs.
applied days deputy editor heard job literary remember three work
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.
sad
I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
forgotten life looked mary money notes rights small sold sum until
I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.
school
Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.
I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.
certainly christmas works
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
information
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
expressing few interest several songs time whose work
In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.
conditions everybody
In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
history interested people present relate trying understand
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.