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Fiona MacCarthy

フィオナ・マッカーシー

Fiona MacCarthy

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1940-01-23 （Sutton, Surrey）
Died
2020-02-29 （Sheffield） age 80
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Residence History
London → Scotland → Sheffield

Career

Occupations
Art historian, journalist, biographer, cultural historian
Active Years
1963-2020
Affiliations
Royal College of Art, Lady Margaret Hall
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall

Education

Wycombe Abbey School
Country: United Kingdom
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Faculty of English / English literature
Degree: BA
Period: 1958-1962
Year of Graduation: 1962
Country: United Kingdom
Degree in English literature

Awards

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
2009
Organization: British monarch
Result: 受賞
Wolfson History Prize
1994
Work: William Morris: A Life for our Time
Result: 受賞
Writers' Guild Non-fiction Award
1994
Work: William Morris: A Life for our Time
Result: 受賞
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
2012
Work: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

William Morris: A Life for our Time

1994 Biography

Biography of William Morris, winner of Wolfson History Prize.

Arts and Crafts movementSocialism

Eric Gill

1989 Biography

Controversial biography of Eric Gill.

CatholicismCraftsSexual history

Stanley Spencer: An English Vision

1997 Biography

Biography of Stanley Spencer.

English art

Byron: Life and Legend

2002 Biography

Detailed biography of Byron.

Romanticism

The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

2011 Biography

Biography of Edward Burne-Jones, James Tait Black winner.

Pre-RaphaeliteVictorian era

Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus

2019 Biography

Biography of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius.

ModernismBauhaus

Bibliography

  • All Things Bright and Beautiful: British Design 1830 to Today (1972)
  • The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds (1981)
  • The Omega Workshops: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury (1984)
  • Eric Gill (1989)
  • William Morris: A Life for our Time (1994)
  • Stanley Spencer: An English Vision (1997)
  • Byron: Life and Legend (2002)
  • Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes (2007)
  • The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination (2011)
  • Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus (2019)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Detailed research-based biographyObjective and controversial accounts
Recurring Motifs
19th-20th century art and designArts and CraftsVictorian culture

Health

  • Multiple myeloma
    晩年、数年間
    Cause of death

Legacy

British biographer and cultural historian known for studies of 19th- and 20th-century art and design.

Trivia

  • One of the last debutantes presented to the Queen.
  • Father killed in WWII.
  • Married designer David Mellor.