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Claire Tomalin (born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933) is an English author and journalist, known for her biographies on Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, and Mary Wollstonecraft. ==Biography== Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933 in London, the daughter of French academic Émile Delavenay and English composer Muriel Herbert. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.〔 She married journalist Nick Tomalin in 1955.〔 She worked in publishing and journalism as literary editor of the ''New Statesman'', then ''The Sunday Times'', while bringing up her children.〔 She has written several noted biographies. In 1974 she published her first book ''The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft'', which won the Whitbread Book Award. Since then she has researched and written ''Shelley and His World'' (1980); ''Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life'' (1987); ''The Invisible Woman: The story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens'' (1990) (NCR, Hawthornden, James Tait Black Prize- now a film ); ''Mrs Jordan's Profession'' (1994); ''Jane Austen: A Life'' (1997) ''Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self'' (2002) . ''Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man'' appeared in 2006, and she made a television film about Hardy, and published a collection of Hardy's poems. Her ''Charles Dickens: A Life'' was published in 2011. She also edited and introduced Mary Shelley's story for children, ''Maurice''. A collection of her reviews, ''Several Strangers'', appeared in 1999. Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Mrs Jordan at Kenwood in 1995, and about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley in 1997. She has served on the Committee of the London Library, and as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and the Wordsworth Trust. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Literary Fund, Royal Society of Literature and of the English PEN. Tomalin married her first husband, fellow Cambridge graduate Nicholas Tomalin, a prominent journalist, in 1955,〔http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin marriages post 1953〕 and they had three daughters and two sons,〔http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin/Delavenay births post 1955〕 but he was killed in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in 1973. Tomalin married the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn in 1993.〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2705079.stm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claire Tomalin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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