"Glendinning's biography is unusual in including almost as much about Raffles's relatives and friends as about him. This is as it should be, as they were crucial to his career as well as to his happiness; especially his two wives, the vivacious , who died in 1814, and then the strong and resourceful , who bore him his children, and fanned his reputation, and her own, after Raffles's death."
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Victoria Glendinning
(née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, novelist, critic, and broadcaster. Her biography Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981) won the .Two of her biographies, Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (1983) and Anthony Trollope (1992), won the . She was elected in 1982 a Fellow of the and was appointed in 1998 (CBE).
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