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British journalist and novelist
- spouse Sir John Mortimer Penelope Mortimer (born Sept. 19, 1918, Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales—died Oct. 19, 1999, London, Eng.) was a British journalist and novelist whose writing, depicting a nightmarish world of neuroses and broken marriages, influenced feminist fiction of the 1960s.
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Penelope Fletcher, better known as Penelope Mortimer, met John Mortimer while still married to Charles Dimont and pregnant with their last child. Fletcher married Mortimer on 27 August 1949, the same day her divorce from Dimont became absolute.
Jan 17, 2009 · He had two daughters by his second wife, Penelope Gollop, whom he married in 1972; the elder, Emily Mortimer, is a noted actress.
The Mortimers (Penelope was married to the flamboyant and famous playwright, novelist and barrister John from 1949 to 1971) lived their lives very much in the public eye, and her earlier novels from A Villa in Summer (1954) to The Pumpkin Eater (1962) appeared to invite the reader behind the scenes of the couple’s apparently enviable lifestyle.
Jan 17, 2009 · In 1949 he married Penelope Fletcher, a writer, who came to the marriage with three children. They had two children, Sally and Jeremy, and divorced. He later married Penelope Gollop, or “Penny ...
Jan 16, 2009 · Mortimer married twice, both times to women called Penelope. The writer Penelope Fletcher already had four daughters when he married her in 1949.
Dec 2, 2018 · Although Penelope had been writing for years—her first novel, Johanna (published under the name Penelope Dimont), appeared the same year as John’s debut, Charade—wife and mother were the identities that publicly defined her throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s.
Jan 16, 2009 · He was married twice, the first time to author Penelope Mortimer. After their marriage collapsed, her autobiography detailed infidelities and rows. Sir John would say only that "marriage...
