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Nicola Beauman
Nicola Beauman
Nicola Beauman (née Mann) was born in 1944 and brought up in London. After reading English at Newnham College, Cambridge, she worked in New York as a journalist and in an art gallery, and in London in publishing and as a fiction reviewer; her five children were born between 1968 and 1985. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39, her first book, was published by Virago in 1983 (reprinted 1989 and 1995); it was reissued in 2008, twenty-five years after first publication, as a Persephone book. Cynthia Asquith appeared in 1987, Morgan: a biography of EM Forster in 1993, and The Other Elizabeth Taylor was published in 2009. Nicola Beauman founded Persephone Books in 1999.
