Byatt describes a childhood where everyone quoted poetry to each other and the house was chock-full of books, but she remains skittish about declaring any sort of wholesome family identity. Three of the four children were girls, and had spent years watching their mother rage about being stuck in the kitchen, which Byatt says "destroyed and damaged something essential in our mother." One of those other girls was Byatt's sister Margaret Drabble, who rose to literary fame long before Byatt did, causing a fault line between the two sisters which still occasionally rumbles.
At the age of five, her mother told her, "Of course, you will go to Cambridge." In 1954, Byatt did, just like her three siblings. None of them can." The British author, who studied at Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania in 1957, has been accused of being many things, from a bluestocking to a "melodramatic pedant." However, her inclusion on the Times' 2008 list of the "50 Greatest British Authors Since 1945" might give her supervisor reason to reconsider.Īntonia Susan Byatt was born on Augto two Cambridge University alumni, John Drabble and Kathleen Bloor, in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
at Oxford, her supervisor told her, "My dear, every young girl with a first-class degree expects to be able to write a good novel.
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