Bainbridge, Beryl (Vol. 22) | Introduction

Beryl Bainbridge 1933–

English novelist, playwright, and essayist.

Bainbridge's fictional world is drab and claustrophobic, peopled by unhappy, unlucky denizens of the lower-middle class. The dreariness of subject and setting is, however, relieved by her satiric wit and spirited dialogue.

(See also CLC, Vols. 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 18, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-24, rev. ed.)

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