Sarah waters author biography outline printable

Sarah Waters OBE is a Welsh author famous for her LGBTQ+ themed, Victorian-era works.

Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction, and here she has delivered again. From the publisher. Her mother was a housewife and her father an engineer who worked on oil refineries. She describes her family as "pretty idyllic, very safe and nurturing.

I know that, for a long time, I wanted to be an archaeologist — like lots of kids. And I think I knew I was headed for university, even though no one else in my family had been. I was always bright at school, and really enjoyed learning.

Sarah Ann Waters OBE (born 21 July ) is a Welsh novelist.

I remember my mother telling me that I might one day go to university and write a thesis, and explaining what a thesis was; and it seemed a very exciting prospect. I was clearly a bit of a nerd. She had always been attracted to boys, and it was not until university that she first fell in love with a woman. The work for her PhD dissertation, 'Wolfskins and togas : lesbian and gay historical fictions, to the present' i available as a free download from the British Library's ETHOS service served as inspiration and material for future books.

As part of her research, she read 19th-century pornography, in which she came across the title of her first book, Tipping the Velvet. Waters lives in a top-floor Victorian flat in Kennington, south-west London. The rooms, which have very high ceilings, used to be servant quarters.