Angela Lambert
Angela Lambert | |
|---|---|
| Born | Angela Maria Helps 14 April 1940 |
| Died | 26 September 2007 (aged 67) |
| Language | English |
| Education | Wispers School St Hilda's College |
| Period | 1969–2006 |
| Spouse |
Martin Lambert (m. 1962–1967) |
| Partner | Tony Price |
| Children | 3 |
Angela Maria Lambert (née Helps; 14 April 1940 – 26 September 2007) was a British journalist and author. She is best known for her novels A Rather English Marriage and Kiss and Kin, the latter of which won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.[1]
Biography
[edit]Lambert was born Angela Maria Helps to an English civil servant and a German-born housewife. She was unhappy when sent to Wispers School, a girls' boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics.
In 1962, she married Martin Lambert, they had a son and a daughter, and the union ended five years later, when he left her with two young children to support. Later she also had another daughter with the Hungarian-born writer Stephen Vizinczey.[2]
She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working for ITN before joining The Independent newspaper in 1988.
Lambert suffered multiple immune disorders and hepatitis C (caught from a blood transfusion) which led to cirrhosis of the liver. Having survived a critical illness in February 2006, she never quite recovered, and became increasingly disabled. She lived in London and France (having bought a house in the Dordogne in 1972). She was survived by her partner of 21 years, television director Tony Price, and her three children.
Works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Love Among the Single Classes (1989)
- No Talking After Lights (1990)
- A Rather English Marriage (1992)
- The Constant Mistress (1994)
- Kiss and Kin (1997)
- Golden Lads and Girls (1999)
- The Property of Rain (2001)
Non-fiction
[edit]- Unquiet Souls: A Social History of the Illustrious, Irreverent, Intimate Group of British Aristocrats Known As "the Souls" (1987)
- 1939: The Last Season of Peace (1989)
- The Lost Life of Eva Braun (2006)
References
[edit]- ^ Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 12 July 2012
- ^ "Angela Lambert at telegraph", The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 July 2012
External links
[edit]
- 1940 births
- 2007 deaths
- Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford
- ITN newsreaders and journalists
- English journalists
- English non-fiction writers
- Writers from London
- People educated at Wispers School
- RoNA Award winners
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- 20th-century English women writers
- 21st-century English women writers
- British women romantic fiction writers
- English women novelists
- English women non-fiction writers
- British women television journalists
- 20th-century British businesspeople