Happy Birthday, Mary Renault!

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy birthday to Mary Renault (4 September, 1905 – 13 December, 1983)!



“Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.”
― Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine (1956)

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

We used to have a biography of her on our shelves, though I'm not sure if it made it through our last move. I was interested to see the discussion of her studying under Tolkien, and of Tolkien's being regarded as a good professor for women—ironically, partly because he was married, which meant he could tutor women students without the need to arrange chaperonage.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes! I love that Tolkien link! (And isn't it funny, that point about the chaperone issue...)

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I loved her books on Theseus, her taking the myths and making them real. And while I enjoyed Fire from Heaven, I'm not such a fan of The Persian Boy. Still, she's given much pleasure, so Happy Birthday, Ms. Renault!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes, she has given much pleasure indeed!