Hilary Bailey (19 September 1936 – 19 January 2017) was a British writer, critic and editor.

Life

Bailey attended

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ...

, where she was a founder-member of the Cambridge University Women's Union. She was born in

Bromley Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011. Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, c ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

. 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 Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir '' Testament of Youth'' recounted her experiences during the Fir ...

, and sequels to ''

Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first ...

'' and ''

The Turn of the Screw ''The Turn of the Screw'' is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in '' Collier's Weekly'' (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898, it was collected in ''The Two Magics'', published by Macmil ...

'', 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 ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'', edited volumes 7–10 of the '' New Worlds Quarterly'' series, and was coauthor of '' The Black Corridor'' (1969) with

Michael Moorcock Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worke ...

, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1978."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'' (1970) and ''Universe 5'' (1974). She was editing ''North Sea Island'', the sequel to her book ''Fifty-First State'' when she died. Bailey had three children, Sophie, Kate and Max and three grandchildren Alex, Tom and Bobby.

Books

* ''Polly Put the Kettle On'' (1975) * ''Mrs. Mulvaney'' (1978) * ''All the Days of My Life'' (1984) * ''Hannie Richards, Or, The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife'' (1985) * ''The Giant Book of Stories'' (1986) * ''Vera Brittain: The Story of the Woman Who Wrote Testament of Youth'' (non-fiction) (1987) * ''As Time Goes By'' (1988) * ''A Stranger to Herself'' (1989) (aka ''She Was a Dreadful Woman'') * ''In Search of Love, Money and Revenge'' (1990) * ''The Cry from Street to Street'' (1992) * ''Cassandra: Princess of Troy'' (1993) * ''Frankenstein's Bride: The Sequel to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein'' (1995) * ''Miles and Flora: A Sequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw'' (1997) * ''Mrs. Rochester: A Sequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre'' (1997) * ''Elizabeth and Lily'' (1997) * ''After the Cabaret'' (1998) * ''Connections'' (2000) * ''Fifty-First State'' (2008) * ''Diana: The Ghost Biography'' (2009) * ''Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes'' (2012) * ''Did We Meet on Grub Street?: A Publishing Miscellany'' (2014)

Short stories

* ''Breakdown'' (1963) * ''The Fall of Frenchy Steiner'' (1964) * ''In Reason's Ear'' (1965) (as Pippin Graham) * ''Be Good Sweet Man'' (1966) * ''Devil of a Drummer'' (1967) * ''The Little Victims'' (1967) * ''Dr. Gelabius'' (1968) * ''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

External links

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