Roberts, Michèle
Entry updated 11 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1949- ) UK poet and author, poetry editor of Spare Rib 1975-1977. Her novels all tend to Fabulation in their expression of an articulate Feminist aesthetic, but three are of genre interest. The Wild Girl (1984) vigorously displaces the reminiscences of Mary Magdalene into what Christians might deem an unattractive Alternate History in which she and Jesus have Sex; The Book of Mrs Noah (1987) similarly engages its heroine in myth-rich concourse with the female Icons who engender the stories that make the world (see Mythology); and in The Walworth Beauty (2017), two eras of London life, and their inhabitants, interact via something like Timeslips. [JC]
Michèle Brigitte Roberts
born Bushey, Hertfordshire: 20 May 1949
works (selected)
- The Wild Girl (London: Methuen, 1984) [hb/]
- The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene (London: Vintage, 2007) [vt of the above: pb/]
- The Book of Mrs Noah (London: Methuen, 1987) [hb/]
- The Walworth Beauty (London: Bloomsbury, 2017) [hb/]
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