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Gillian Elizabeth Tindall

ジリアン・エリザベス・ティンダル

Jirian Erizabesu Tindaru

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1938-05-04 （Regent's Park, London）
Died
2025-10-01 （London） age 87
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
London, England

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Biographer, Historian, Journalist
Active Years
1959-2025
Affiliations
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Memberships
Royal Society of Literature

Education

Manor House School
Unknown
Country: United Kingdom
School in Limpsfield; unhappy experience there

Awards

Somerset Maugham Award
1972
Work: Fly Away Home
Result: Winner
Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters
1999
Work: The Journey of Martin Nadaud
Organization: French Government
Result: Awarded

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Fly Away Home

1971 Novel
FamilyJourney

City of Gold: The Biography of Bombay

1992 Biography

Biography of Bombay

Urban historyIndia

Celestine: Voices from a French Village

1997 Non-fiction

Voices from a French village

Village lifeFrance

The Fields Beneath

1977 History

History of Kentish Town

London historyUrbanization

The House by the Thames

2006 History

History of a house by the Thames

Architectural historyLondon

Bibliography

  • No Name in the Street
  • The Water and the Sound
  • The Edge of the Paper
  • The Youngest
  • Someone Else
  • Fly Away Home
  • The Traveller and His Child
  • The Intruder
  • Looking Forward
  • To the City
  • Give Them All My Love
  • Spirit Weddings
  • Journal of a Man Unknown
  • Dances of Death: Short Stories on a Theme
  • The China Egg and Other Stories
  • Journey of a Lifetime and Other Stories
  • The Born Exile: George Gissing
  • A Handbook on Witches
  • Rosamond Lehmann: An Appreciation
  • Countries of the Mind: The Meaning of Place to Writers
  • Célestine: Voices from a French Village
  • The Journey of Martin Nadaud: A Life and Turbulent Times
  • The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar in Reality and Imagination
  • The House by the Thames: And the People Who Lived There
  • Footprints in Paris: A Few Streets, a Few Lives
  • The Fields Beneath
  • Three Houses, Many Lives
  • The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey
  • The Pulse Glass and the Beat of Other Hearts

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Specialised in miniaturist historyDetailed micro-histories of places
Recurring Motifs
London historyLayers of urban historyEveryday lives

Legacy

British writer and historian who specialised in the micro-history of London places and urban development, also active as a journalist.

Trivia

  • Her mother was the 1930s-1940s novelist Ursula Orange.