Victoria Glendinning

Victoria Glendinning is an award-winning biographer, critic, broadcaster, and novelist. Educated at Oxford where she studied modern languages, she later worked for The Times Literary Supplement. She is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. Her acclaimed biographies include Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer and Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, and Rebecca West: A Life.

Victoria Glendinning's Titles

Butcher's Daughter A Novel

The Butcher's Daughter

In 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where womeneven the privileged few who can read...