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It also commented on the "often-dated feminist themes". Ruth Rendell later reported in an interview with Anthea Davey for Red Pepper that she had "had a go at dotty militant feminism" in An Unkindness of Ravens and as a result "I was described by one women's magazine as the greatest anti-feminist since Dashiell Hammett". [2]
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. [ 1 ] Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford . [ 2 ]
Asta's Book is a 1993 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine. [1] It was published in the USA under the title Anna's Book . Plot
Vanity Dies Hard is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 1966 by John Long Ltd in the UK [1] and in the same year as In Sickness and in Health by Doubleday in the US. [2] In a later interview, the author said that it was at the very bottom of the list of "my worst books". [ 3 ]
A Spot of Folly is a collection of short stories by English writer Ruth Rendell. [1] Subtitled "Ten And A Quarter New Tales Of Murder and Mayhem" the collection was published in 2017, two years after Rendell's death. [2]
One Across, Two Down is a psychological suspense novel by British writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1971. [ 1 ] In 1976, it was made into the film, Diary of the Dead by Arvin Brown , written by I.C. Rapoport, and starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and Hector Elizondo .
The House of Stairs is a 1988 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published under the name Barbara Vine. [1] Writing in The Washington Post , Michael Dirda referred to the novel as a "stunning suspense [thriller]".
The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. [1] It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. [citation needed] The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.