Hilary Bailey
{{Short description|British writer, critic and editor (1936–2017)}}
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Hilary Bailey (19 September 1936 – 11 January 2017) was a British writer, critic and editor.
Life
Bailey attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was a founder-member of the Cambridge University Women's Union.{{Cite book|title = Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works|last = Ramsey|first = P.S.|publisher = Literary Reference Center|year = 2007|chapter = Hilary Bailey|type = Online resource|via = EBSCO|url-access=subscription |url = http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=103331LM17469790300520&site=ehost-live}} She was born in Bromley, Kent.
Her books include Polly Put the Kettle On, Mrs Mulvaney, Hannie Richards and All the Days of My Life, with a heroine who suffers the fate of all women who step away from what is expected of them. She wrote a biography of Vera Brittain, and sequels to Jane Eyre and The Turn of the Screw, a novel called Miles and Flora, which takes place some time after the original and resurrects one of the main characters. Bailey reviewed chiefly for The Guardian, was active in the so-called New Wave of science fiction and edited volumes 7–10 of the New Worlds Quarterly series, and was coauthor of The Black Corridor (1969) with Michael Moorcock, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1978.{{cite news|author=Andrew Harrison|title=Michael Moorcock: 'I think Tolkien was a crypto-fascist'|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/07/michael-moorcock-i-think-tolkien-was-crypto-fascist|work=New Statesman|date=24 July 2015}}[http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bailey_hilary "Bailey, Hilary"], The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE), 21 January 2017. Two of Bailey's science fiction short stories appeared in anthologies edited by Terry Carr. The anthology titles are On Our Way to the Future{{Cite book |title=On Our Way to the Future |editor-last=Carr |editor-first=Terry |asin=B000BPRO9O}} (1970) and Universe 5{{Cite book |title=Universe 5 |editor-last=Carr |editor-first=Terry |asin=B00005X280}} (1974). She was a prominent and much-anthologised writer associated with the science fiction New Wave.
She was editing North Sea Island, the sequel to her dystopian novel Fifty-First State when she died.
Bailey had three children, Sophie, Kate and Max, as well as three grandchildren Alex, Tom and Bobby.
Books
- Polly Put the Kettle On (1975){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Polly Put the Kettle On |year=1975 |publisher=Constable |isbn=978-0094606500}}
- Mrs. Mulvaney (1978){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Mrs. Mulvaney |year=1978 |publisher=Constable |isbn=978-0094619104}}
- All the Days of My Life (1984){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=All the Days of My Life |year=1986 |publisher=Random House Publishing |isbn=978-0449131541}}
- Hannie Richards, Or, The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife (1985){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Hannie Richards, Or, The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife |year=1985 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0394550046}}
- The Giant Book of Stories (1986){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=The Giant Book of Stories |year=1986 |publisher=Galley Press |isbn=978-0861366835}}
- Vera Brittain: The Story of the Woman Who Wrote Testament of Youth (non-fiction) (1987){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Vera Brittain: The Story of the Woman Who Wrote Testament of Youth |isbn=978-0140080032 |series=Lives of Modern Women|year=1987 }}
- As Time Goes By (1988){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=As Time Goes By |year= 1988 |publisher=Constable |isbn=978-0094646605}}
- A Stranger to Herself (1989) {{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=A Stranger to Herself |year=1990 |publisher=Pan Books |isbn=978-0330316057}}(aka She Was a Dreadful Woman){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=She Was a Dreadful Woman |year=1989 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0333474624}}
- In Search of Love, Money and Revenge (1990){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=In Search of Love, Money and Revenge |year=1990 |isbn=978-0333474617}}
- The Cry from Street to Street (1992){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=The Cry From Street to Street |year=1992 |publisher=Constable |isbn=978-0094714502}}
- Cassandra: Princess of Troy (1993){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Cassandra: Princess of Troy |year=1993 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |isbn=978-0224029056}}
- Frankenstein's Bride: The Sequel to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein (1995){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Frankenstein's Bride: The Sequel to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein |year=1995 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0671719173}}
- Miles and Flora: A Sequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw (1997){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Miles and Flora: A Sequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw |year=1998 |publisher=Touchstone |isbn=978-0684817316}}
- Mrs. Rochester: A Sequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1997){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Mrs. Rochester |isbn=978-0671516727}}
- Elizabeth and Lily (1997){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Elizabeth and Lily |isbn=978-0751516722}}
- After the Cabaret (1998){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=After the Cabaret |isbn=978-0316643955}}
- Connections (2000){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Connections |isbn=978-0727855718}}
- Fifty-First State (2008){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Fifty-First State |year=2024 |publisher=Severn House |isbn=978-0727866936}}
- Diana: The Ghost Biography (2009){{Cite book |last1=Tennant |first1=Emma |title=Diana: The Ghost Biography |last2=Bailey |first2=Hilary |year=2024 |publisher=Bliss |isbn=978-1906413002}}
- Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes (2012){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes |year= 2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury USA |isbn=978-1448209507}}
- Did We Meet on Grub Street?: A Publishing Miscellany (2014){{Cite book |last1=Bailey |first1=Hilary |title=Did We Meet on Grub Street?: A Publishing Miscellany |last2=Tennant |first2=Emma |last3=Elliot |first3=David |year=2024 |publisher=Quartet |isbn=978-0704372986}}
Short stories
- Breakdown (1963){{Cite magazine|last=Bailey |first=Hilary |date=October 1963 |editor-last=Carnell |editor-first=John |title=Breakdown |magazine=New Worlds |volume=35 |number=135}}
- The Fall of Frenchy Steiner (1964){{Cite magazine|last=Bailey |first=Hilary |date=July–August 1964 |editor-last=Moorcock |editor-first=Michael |title=The Fall of Frenchy Steiner |magazine=New Worlds |volume=48 |number=143}}
- In Reason's Ear (1965) (as Pippin Graham){{Cite magazine|last=Bailey |first=Hilary |date=June 1965 |editor-last=Bonfilioli |editor-first=Kyril |title=In Reason's Ear |magazine=Science Fantasy |volume=|number=73 }}
- Be Good Sweet Man (1966){{Cite magazine|last=Bailey |first=Hilary |date=October 1966 |editor-last=Moorcock |editor-first=Michael |title=Be Good Sweet Man |magazine=New Worlds |volume=50 |number=167}}
- Devil of a Drummer (1967){{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Hilary |title=The Devil His Due |year=1967 |editor-last=Hill |editor-first=Douglas Arthur}}
- The Little Victims (1967){{Cite magazine|last=Bailey |first=Hilary |date=November 1967 |editor-last=Ferman |editor-first=Edward L. |title=The Little Victims |magazine=The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |volume=33 |number=5}}
- Dr. Gelabius (1968){{Cite magazine|last=Bailey |first=Hilary |date=April 1968 |editor-last=Moorcock |editor-first=Michael |editor2-last=Sallis |editor2-first=James |title=Dr. Gelabius |magazine=New Worlds |volume=|number=181}}
- Agatha Blue (1970)
- Dogman of Islington (1970)
- Twenty-Four Letters from Underneath the Earth (1971)
- A Chronicle of Blackton (1972)
- Bella Goes to the Dark Tower (1973)
- On Board the Good Ship Venus (1974)
- The Ramparts (1974)
- Sisters (1976)
- Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Time and Space (1980) (aka Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Space and Time and Everything Blowing Up)
References
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External links
- [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/hilary-bailey/ Hilary Bailey] at Fantastic Fiction
- {{isfdb name|id=2393|name=Hilary Bailey}}
- [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bailey_hilary Hilary Bailey] at The Science Fiction Encyclopedia
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