Marina Warner
Marina Sarah Warner, CBE, FBA (born 1946 in London, England) is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth.
She is Distinguished Visiting Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, 2014.
Career
Her first book was The Dragon Empress: The Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress
Dowager of China, 1835-1908 (1972), followed by the controversial Alone of All HerSex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976) a provocative study of Roman Catholic adoration of the Virgin Mary. These were followed by Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form and Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984.[2] She gave the 1994 Reith Lectures on Managing Monsters and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to literature.[3]
Received an honorary doctorate (DLitt) from the University of Oxford on 21 June 2006
Her novel The Lost Father was on the Booker Prize shortlist in 1988; the non-fiction
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers won a Mythopoeic Award in 1996. The companion study of the male terror figure (from ancient myth and folklore to modern obsessions), No Go the Bogeyman: On Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock was published in 2000 and won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize that year. Her other novels include The Leto Bundle and Indigo.
Her book Phantasmagoria (2006), traces the ways in which 'the spirit' has been
represented across different mediums, from waxworks to Cinema.
She also has honorary degrees from the Universities of Exeter, York and St Andrews, and honorary doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University and the University of North London.
www.marinawarner.com
Bibliography
• The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1972)
• Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 1976)
• In a Dark Wood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977)
• Queen Victoria Sketch Book (Macmillan, 1979)
• The Crack in the Tea-Cup: Britain in the 20th Century (André Deutsch, 1979)
• Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981)
• The Impossible Day (Methuen, 1981)
• The Impossible Night (Methuen, 1981)
• The Impossible Bath (Methuen, 1982)
• The Impossible Rocket (Methuen, 1982)
• The Skating Party (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982)
• The Wobbly Tooth (André Deutsch, 1984)
• Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1985)
• The Lost Father (Chatto & Windus, 1988)
• Into the Dangerous World (Chatto & Windus, 1989)
• Imagining a Democratic Culture (Charter 88, 1991)
• Indigo (Chatto & Windus, 1992)
• L'Atalante (British Film Institute, 1993)
• Mermaids in the Basement (Chatto & Windus, 1993)
• Richard Wentworth (Thames & Hudson, 1993)
• From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Chatto & Windus,
1994)
• Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time (Reith Lectures) (Vintage, 1994)
• Wonder Tales: Six Stories of Enchantment (editor) (Chatto & Windus, 1994)
• Six Myths Of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More
(New York: Vintage Books, 1995)
• Donkey Business Donkey Work: Magic and Metamorphoses in Contemporary Opera
(University of Wales, 1996)
• The Inner Eye: Art beyond the Visible (National Touring Exhibitions, 1996)
• No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Chatto & Windus, 1998)
• The Leto Bundle (Chatto & Windus, 2001)
• Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• Murderers I Have Known and Other Stories (Chatto & Windus, 2002)
• Collected Poems by Sally Purcell: (preface) (Anvil Press, 2002)
• Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture (Chatto & Windus, 2003)
• Phantasmagoria (Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights (Chatto & Windus, 2011)
• The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought (Violette Editions, 2014)
• "Once Upon a Time - A Short History of Fairy Tale" (Oxford University Press, 2014)"
