Juliet Nicolson
Juliet Nicolson (born 9 June 1954) is a British author and journalist.
Biography
[edit]Nicolson was born in Bransgore, England to the writer and publisher Nigel Nicolson and his wife Philippa Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, and grew up at Sissinghurst. She read English Literature at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
She is the granddaughter of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She is the sister of the writer Adam Nicolson, and the publisher Rebecca Nicolson.
Writing
[edit]Publishing and journalism
[edit]Between 1976 and 1994 she worked in publishing, first in London before spending ten years in New York working for Grove Atlantic Publishers.
On returning to England in 1994 she became a literary agent at Ed Victor Ltd before becoming a freelance journalist in 2000 writing for publications including the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, the Evening Standard, The Spectator, and Harper's Bazaar where she is now a contributing editor.[1]
Books
[edit]Nicolson has published five books, including three works of social history, one memoir and a novel. Three of these were selected as a BBC Radio 4 “Book of the Week”.[2] The journalist Tina Brown has said: ‘Juliet Nicolson has invented a new kind of social history.’[3]
The Perfect Summer (published 2006) focuses on one sweltering season in 1911.[4] The Great Silence[5] (published 2009) is about three consecutive November 11ths from 1918-1920. Frostquake (published 2021) tells the story of one locked-down, snowy winter of 1962-3.[6]
Nicolson's memoir, A House Full of Daughters (published 2016)[7] is an account of seven generations of daughters in her own family beginning with her great great grandmother, Pepita de Oliva, a Spanish flamenco dancer born in Malaga in 1830 and culminating with her granddaughter born in London in 2013.
Nicolson’s novel Abdication (published 2012) is set in 1936 against the backdrop of the British Royal Family’s famous constitutional crisis.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Nicolson is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of four children. She lives with her husband, former diplomat Charles Anson CVO.
Books
[edit]- The Perfect Summer, Dancing into Shadow in 1911 (John Murray 2006)
- The Great Silence 1918-20, Living in the Shadow of the Great War (John Murray 2009)
- Abdication, a novel (Bloomsbury 2012)
- A House Full of Daughters, a memoir (Chatto & Windus 2016)
- Frostquake, the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country (Chatto & Windus 2021)
References
[edit]- ^ Slater, Lydia (27 September 2016). "Burberry celebrates its September collection with Harper's Bazaar". Harper's BAZAAR.
- ^ "A House Full of Daughters: Radio 4 Book of the Week".
- ^ Nicolson, Juliet (24 April 2019). The Perfect Summer. John Murray. ISBN 9780719562433 – via www.hachette.co.uk.
- ^ "The Perfect Summer | Grove Atlantic" – via groveatlantic.com.
- ^ "The Great Silence 1918-1920 by Juliet Nicolson | Book review". the Guardian. 15 November 2009.
- ^ Nicolson, Juliet (30 December 2021). Frostquake.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Thomas, Louisa (15 July 2016). "A Past of One's Own: Vita Sackville-West's Granddaughter Describes Her Extraordinary Ancestors (Published 2016)". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Abdication". Bloomsbury Publishing.
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- English women journalists
- 21st-century English women writers
- 1954 births
- Living people
- 21st-century British non-fiction writers
- English women novelists
- English women non-fiction writers
- 21st-century English novelists
- British women memoirists
- Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
- Nicolson family
- People from New Forest District
- Writers from Hampshire