Carole Seymour-Jones
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Carole Seymour-Jones is a Welsh writer. She is the author of Beatrice Webb: A Life (1992); Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of T.S. Eliot (2001), which she wrote as a visiting fellow at the University of Texas at Austin; and A Dangerous Liaison (2009), about the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir
and Jean-Paul Sartre
; as well as co-editor of Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (2007). She also writes for the New Statesman and the Times Higher Education Supplement. She served on the executive committee of the English PEN
, the writers' association, from 1997 to 2001, sat on its Books to Prisoners Committee, and chaired its Writers in Prison Committee.
, and obtained her master's at Sussex University. She taught history to adults at Surrey University and to sixth formers.
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir , was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and...
and Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
; as well as co-editor of Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (2007). She also writes for the New Statesman and the Times Higher Education Supplement. She served on the executive committee of the English PEN
International PEN
PEN International , the worldwide association of writers, was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere....
, the writers' association, from 1997 to 2001, sat on its Books to Prisoners Committee, and chaired its Writers in Prison Committee.
Early life
Seymour-Jones was born in Wales. She studied history at Lady Margaret Hall, OxfordLady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m....
, and obtained her master's at Sussex University. She taught history to adults at Surrey University and to sixth formers.
Further reading
- Seymour-Jones, Carole (2001). Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot, Knopf Publishing Group.
- Seymour-Jones, Carole (October 14, 2001). Tom and Viv... and Bertie, The Observer.
- Seymour-Jones, Carole (October 26, 2001). Not crazy after all these years, Times Higher Education.