Juliet Nicolson
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Juliet Nicolson (born 9 June 1954) is a British author and journalist.
Biography
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
=Publishing and journalism=
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.{{Cite magazine|last=Slater|first=Lydia|date=September 27, 2016|title=Burberry celebrates its September collection with Harper's Bazaar|url=http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/fashion/fashion-news/news/a38081/burberry-september-collection-harpers-bazaar-event/|magazine=Harper's BAZAAR}}
=Books=
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”.{{cite web|title=A House Full of Daughters: Radio 4 Book of the Week|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b078npgk}} The journalist Tina Brown has said: ‘Juliet Nicolson has invented a new kind of social history.’{{Cite book|url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/juliet-nicolson/the-perfect-summer/9780719562433/|title=The Perfect Summer|date=April 24, 2019|isbn=9780719562433 |via=www.hachette.co.uk |last1=Nicolson |first1=Juliet |publisher=John Murray }}
The Perfect Summer (published 2006) focuses on one sweltering season in 1911.{{Cite web|url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-perfect-summer/|title=The Perfect Summer | Grove Atlantic|via=groveatlantic.com}} The Great Silence{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/15/great-silence-juliet-nicolson|title=The Great Silence 1918-1920 by Juliet Nicolson | Book review|date=November 15, 2009|website=the Guardian}} (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.{{Cite book|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1117637/frostquake/9781784742959.html|title=Frostquake|first=Juliet|last=Nicolson|website=www.penguin.co.uk|date=30 December 2021 }}
Nicolson's memoir, A House Full of Daughters (published 2016){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/books/review/juliet-nicolson-house-full-of-daughters-vita-sackville-west.html|title=A Past of One's Own: Vita Sackville-West's Granddaughter Describes Her Extraordinary Ancestors (Published 2016)|first=Louisa|last=Thomas|work=The New York Times |date=July 15, 2016|via=NYTimes.com}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/abdication-9781408823088/|title=Abdication|website=Bloomsbury Publishing}}
Personal life
Nicolson is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of four children. She lives with her husband, former diplomat Charles Anson CVO.
Books
- 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)
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Category:English women journalists
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:21st-century British non-fiction writers
Category:English women novelists
Category:English women non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:British women memoirists
Category:Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford