Mary Renault (born Mary Challans, 1905–1983) was an English novelist whose works are still popular with devotees of the historical novel.

Life and Works

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She was born in London and educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford, then an all-women's college, receiving a degree in English in 1928. In 1933 she began training as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary. During her training, she met Julie Mullard, a fellow nurse with whom she established a life-long romantic relationship.

She worked as a nurse while beginning a writing career, treating Dunkirk evacuees at the Winford Emergency Hospital in Bristol, and working in Radcliffe Infirmary's brain surgery ward until 1945. She published her first novel, Purposes of Love, in 1939; it had a contemporary setting, like her other early novels, which novelist Linda Proud described as "a strange combination of Platonism and hospital romance".^*

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CarolTownend (Carol Townend) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:28:41 -0000
Carol Townend: Mary Renault Article from the Archives http://bit.ly/gmA8z
@MichaelCook6 it got me into ancient history! the labyrinth was just a huge palace complex. or read mary renault's the king must die.
samt77 (samt77) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:43:01 -0000
@MichaelCook6 it got me into ancient history! the labyrinth was just a huge palace complex. or read mary renault's the king must die.
@MichaelCook6it got me into ancient history! the labyrinth was just a huge palace complex. or read mary renault's the king must die.
samt77 (samt77) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:31:10 -0000
@MichaelCook6it got me into ancient history! the labyrinth was just a huge palace complex. or read mary renault's the king must die.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. -Mary Renault #quote
GSpotMagazine (The GSpot Team) Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:32:07 -0000
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. -Mary Renault #quote
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978 #quote
wipoolplayer (Denny Griffin) Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:58:18 -0000
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978 #quote

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