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Gillian Freeman ( born 5 December 1929)〔''International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004'', Routledge, page 187.〕 is a British writer. Born to a non-observant Jewish family in North London, daughter of Dr. Jack Freeman and his wife Freda (née Davids),〔'Marriages', ''The Times'', 13 September 1955.〕 she graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Reading in 1951. She married Edward Thorpe, novelist and ballet critic of the ''Evening Standard'', in 1955.〔'Marriages', ''The Times'', 13 September 1955.〕 They have two daughters, the actresses Harriet Thorpe and Matilda Thorpe. One of her best known books was the 1961 novel ''The Leather Boys'' (published under the pseudonym Eliot George, a reference to the writer George Eliot), a story of a gay relationship between two young working-class men, later turned into a film for which she wrote the screenplay, this time under her own name. The novel was commissioned by the publisher Anthony Blond, who wanted a story about a "Romeo and Romeo in the South London suburbs".〔(Review of The Leather Boys (Gillian Freeman) by Martin Foreman )〕 Her non-fiction book ''The Undergrowth of Literature'' (1967), was a pioneering study of pornography.〔Victor E. Neuburg, ''The Popular Press companion to popular literature'', Popular Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87972-233-9, p.97〕 In 1979, on another commission from Blond, she wrote a fictional diary, ''Nazi Lady: The Diaries of Elisabeth von Stahlenberg, 1938–48''; Freeman's authorship was not at first revealed and many readers took it to be genuine.〔Anthony Blond, 'Glory Boys', ''The Sunday Times'', 13 June 2004.〕 Her most recent book is ''But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury'' (2006), a fictional study of the Bloomsbury Group. == Works == * ''The Liberty Man'', 1955 * ''Fall of Innocence'', 1956 * ''Jack Would be a Gentleman'', 1959 * ''The Story of Albert Einstein'', 1960 * ''The Leather Boys'', 1961 * ''The Campaign'', 1963 * ''The Leather Boys'' (screenplay), 1964 * ''Only Lovers Left Alive'' (screenplay), 1965 * ''The Leader'', 1965 * ''The Undergrowth of Literature'', 1967 * ''That Cold Day in the Park'' (screenplay), 1969 * ''An Evasion of Women'' (short play, alongside pieces by Shena Mackay, Margaret Drabble, and Maureen Duffy), 1969〔Irving Wardle, 'Experiment and Expansion', ''The Times'', 1 March 1969〕 * ''The Alabaster Egg'', 1970 * ''I Want What I Want'' (screenplay), 1972 * ''The Marriage Machine'', 1975 * ''The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil'', 1976 * ''Mayerling'' (ballet scenario), 1978〔Gillian Freeman, 'The making of Mayerling', ''The Times,'' 8 February 1978〕 * ''Intimate Letters'' (ballet scenario), 1978〔John Percival, 'Sadler's Wells: Intimate Letters', ''The Times'', 11 October 1978〕 * ''Nazi Lady: The Diaries of Elisabeth von Stahlenberg, 1938–48'', 1979 * ''An Easter Egg Hunt'', 1981 * ''Isadora'' (ballet scenario), 1981〔John Percival, 'Isadora, Covent Garden', ''The Times'', 1 May 1981〕 * ''Lovechild'', 1984 * ''Life Before Man'', 1986 * ''Ballet Genius: Twenty Great Dancers of the Twentieth Century'' (with Edward Thorpe), 1988 * ''Termination Rock'', 1989 * ''His Mistress's Voice'', 2000 * ''But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury'', 2006 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「Gillian Freeman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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