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Penelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher, 19 September 1918 – 19 October 1999) was a British journalist, biographer, and novelist. She wrote a semi-autobiographic novel in 1962 titled ''The Pumpkin Eater'' which was turned into a 1964 film. Anne Bancroft was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as 'Jo Armitage', a character based on herself. ==Personal life== Mortimer was born Penelope Ruth Fletcher in Rhyl,〔http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/28/penelope-mortimer-the-pumpkin-eater-angry-young-woman〕 Flintshire (now Denbighshire, Wales, the younger daughter of Amy Caroline Fletcher & the Rev AFG Fletcher,〔http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/22/guardianobituaries1〕 a Anglican clergyman, who had lost his faith and used the parish magazine to celebrate Soviet persecution of the Russian church.〔Peter Guttridge, Anna Pavord ("Obituary: Penelope Mortimer", ) ''The Independent'', 23 October 1999, as reproduced on ''Find Articles'' website〕 He also abused her sexually.〔 Mortimer later wrote of her father: "I think he was a clergyman for one reason only; there was nothing else!, as Nellie Fletcher's second son, he could possibly have been. As a small boy, bullied and teased by six sisters and four brothers, he sat under the nursery table chanting 'Mama, papa, all the children are disagreeable except me', to the tune of Gentle Jesus'."〔 Her father frequently changed his parish and she attended numerous schools. Mortimer was educated across the country. Croydon High School; the New School, Streatham; Blencathra, Rhyl; Garden School, Lane End; St Elphin's School for Daughters of the Clergy; and the Central Educational Bureau for Women.〔 She left University College, London,〔Giles Gordon ("Obituary:Penelope Mortimer", ) ''The Guardian'', 22 October 1999. Retrieved on 17 January 2009.〕 after only one year.〔 She married Charles Dimont, a journalist, in 1937;〔 and they had two daughters,〔 including the actress Caroline Mortimer. She had two daughters through extra-marital relationships with Kenneth Harrison and Randall Swingler. She met barrister and writer John Mortimer while pregnant with the last child and married him in 1949, on the day her divorce from Dimont became absolute.〔 Together they had a daughter and a son Jeremy Mortimer. Their relationship, is said to have been happy at first, soon grew stormy.〔 Others however say () it was difficult from the start. In the 1950's and 60's the couple were frequently photographed at London high society events.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/23/arts/penelope-mortimer-81-author-of-pumpkin-eater.html〕 However behind this façade, Penelope had frequent bouts of depression. In 1962, the same year the The Pumpkin Eater was written, at John Mortimer urging, she agreed to an abortion and sterilisation.〔 she is said to have been happy with teh decision, however during her convalescence, she discovered her husbands affair Wendy Craig (by whom he had a son). They divorced in 1971. 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「Penelope Mortimer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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