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Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour, author of the award-winning In My Father's House has written many acclaimed novels and biographies, including lives of Mary Shelley, Robert Graves, Ottoline Morrell and Helle Nice, the Bugatti Queen.

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Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. bohemian but disciplined, sociable but intense, passionate about my house, my family, my work
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My life in 8 words: "bohemian but disciplined, sociable but intense, passionate about my house, my family, my work"
Noble Endeavours will be released on August 29, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook Reflowable, eBook
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. seize the day! Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. right here in my home with my family Q. What’s your greatest fear? A. loss of the ability to write Q. What trait is most noticeable about you? A. cheerfulness Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. my funny valentine misty summertime god only knows and barbarann Learn more about Miranda Seymour

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Telegraph, April 15, 2013
...Miranda Seymour is touched by Phyllida Law's account of dealing with her mother's dementia. It all started on the day when wee Mego one of the books engaging book...
Telegraph, April 15, 2013
...It all started on the day when wee Mego one of the books engaging book illustrations shows her mother looking like a fluffy-haired Tinkerbell boiled a wine cork with the potatoes. By the time she was confusing her daughter Phyllida Law with a black...
Guardian.co.uk, February 15, 2013
...weekend the at which such masters and mistresses of their art as Claire Tomalin, Richard Holmes, Charles Nicholl, Miranda Seymour, Jeremy Treglown and Frances Wilson took biography's pulse and made the cheering diagnosis that it is, in fact, in rude...
Guardian.co.uk, February 7, 2013
...family through a collection of miniature statues. Conference attendees in Norwich, who will include Margaretta Jolly, Charles Nicholl, Miranda Seymour, Jeremy Treglown, and Frances Wilson, are to consider topics including, "what kind of life do we get...
FemaleFirst.co.uk, February 7, 2013
...letters and journals, as well as modern studies of the Shelleys, including the biography of Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour. I do a lot of my research at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and I was able to sit under a portrait of Shelley to do it! 3. Why...
Telegraph, October 22, 2012
.... Shot in Persia and stuffed in Piccadilly, the crocodile its toothy grin adorns the jacket of Selina Guinnesss memoir is revealed as an unusual country house postbox. Such eccentricity flags up a warning: we may be about to enter the swamplands of...
Telegraph, October 22, 2012
...Miranda Seymour enjoys Selina Guinnesss determined fight to save her ancestral home. Shot in Persia and stuffed in Piccadilly, the crocodile its toothy grin adorns the jacket of Selina Guinnesss memoir...
PR inside, May 7, 2013
...Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. Contacts: AXA Business Insurance Miranda Seymour Press Office 0208 246 6853 or 07966 549413at.marketwire.com/accesstracking/...
BusinessPress24, May 7, 2013
...Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. Contacts: AXA Business Insurance Miranda Seymour Press Office 0208 246 6853 or 07966 549413 Keywords (optional): axa-business-insurance,...
Benzinga.com, May 7, 2013
...and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: AXA Business Insurance Miranda Seymour Press Office 0208 246 6853 or 07966 549413...
Individual.com, May 7, 2013
...and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: AXA Business Insurance Miranda Seymour Press Office 0208 246 6853 or 07966 549413 SOURCE: AXA Business Insurance...
PredictWallStreet, May 7, 2013
...Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. Contacts: AXA Business Insurance Miranda Seymour Press Office 0208 246 6853 or 07966 549413 SOURCE: AXA Business Insurance (C) 2013 Marketwire...
Telegraph, April 15, 2013
...Miranda Seymour is touched by Phyllida Law's account of dealing with her mother's dementia. It all started on the day when wee Mego one of the books engaging book...
Telegraph, April 15, 2013
...It all started on the day when wee Mego one of the books engaging book illustrations shows her mother looking like a fluffy-haired Tinkerbell boiled a wine cork with the potatoes. By the time she was confusing her daughter Phyllida Law with a black...