1. Mary Renault - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Mary Renault (pronounced Renolt 1) (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) born Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Renault

Mary Renault From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Mary Renault (pronounced Ren-olt 4 September 13 December ) born Mary Challans , was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece . In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus Socrates Plato and Alexander the Great , she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander. Contents Biography Bibliography Contemporary fiction Historical novels ... edit Biography She was born at Dacre Lodge, 49 Plashet Road, Forest Gate Essex , (now Greater London ). She was 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".

2. The Greek World Of MARY RENAULT Mary Renault s eight novels of ancient Greece. Loads of links. http://www.wwu.edu/~stephan/Renault/renault.html

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3. Internet Book List :: Author Information: Mary Renault Mary Renault was born in London in 1905, where her father was a doctor. She first went to Oxford with the idea of teaching, but decided that she wanted to http://www.iblist.com/author423.htm

@import "http://www.iblist.com/css/site.css"; Books by Title by Author by Genre by Rating Authors by Name by Rating Series by Name by Genre by Rating IBList About Forums Donate Contact ... Statistics User Register Author Information: Mary Renault View all 1 Images Comment! Rating: Weighted - 7.86 / Average - of 10 (8 votes) Comments: show them Biography's Source: Biography: Novels: Friendly Young Ladies, the (1944) Charioteer, the (1953) Last of the Wine, the (1956) King Must Die, the (1958) ... Funeral Games (1981) Series: Alexander the Great Pseudonyms: Eileen Mary Challan Steven Jeffery / IBList.com, 2007

4. Mary Renault --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Mary Renault Britishborn South African novelist, best known for her scholarship and her skill in re-creating http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9063182/Mary-Renault

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5. Mary Renault Summary Mary Renault summary with 22 pages of encyclopedia entries, essays, summaries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/Mary_Renault

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6. Brief Biography Of Mary Renault Mary Renault wrote so sympathetically and with such candor about the male world of Ancient Greece and about love between men that many readers believed the http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Renault/renault.biog2.html

Mary Renault: a Biography Mary Renault wrote so sympathetically and with such candor about the male world of Ancient Greece and about love between men that many readers believed the best-selling author of The Last of the Wine, The King Must Die, and The Persian Boy must be a man. In reality, Mary Renault was the pseudonym for a surprising and intensely private woman, born Mary Challans in a genteel London suburb. In this first biography, David Sweetman, who met and filmed Mary Renault for the BBC in 1981 and corresponded with her until her death in 1983, unravels the mystery of this unseen woman. She began as a bookish, withdrawn child of disappointed parents and became a standard-bearer of the sexual revolution. She discovered scholarship at Oxford, in the days when women had only just been admitted, but abandoned the academic world for a nursing career. When, in 1947, she won an MGM award for $150,000, she embarked for South Africa with her lifelong companion, Julie Mullard, never to return to England. A revolutionary in sexual matters, she was accused of being politically reactionary; a passionate believer in Greek ideals of democracy and justice, she was among the first to join Black Sash, the women's movement that was in the forefront of the fight against apartheid, but over the years her disillusionment with radical politics led her to withdraw into a fictional world of her own creation. With full access to Mary Renault's letters and papers and to the story of her long romance with Julie, David Sweetman reveals how, in its concerns, her life cannot be divorced from her fiction, combining a brilliantly textured picture of her life with a revealing analysis of the novels.

7. Mary Renault Mary Renault A Biography, 1993, BY David Sweetman The masks of Mary Renault A Literary Biography, 2001, BY Catherine Zilboorg. Author of books http://www.nndb.com/people/177/000086916/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Mary Renault AKA Eileen Mary Challans Born: 4-Sep Birthplace: London, England Died: 13-Dec Location of death: Cape Town, South Africa Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Lesbian Occupation: Novelist Nationality: South Africa Executive summary: The Last of the Wine Father: Frank Challans (physician) Mother: Clementine Newsome Baxter Sister: Joyce Girlfriend: Julie Mullard (life-long companion) High School: Clifton Girls School, Bristol, England University: BA, St. Hugh's College, Oxford University (1928) Medical School: Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford University Is the subject of books: Mary Renault: A Biography BY: David Sweetman The masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography BY: Catherine Zilboorg Author of books: Purposes of Love , novel) Kind Are Her Answers , novel) The Friendly Young Ladies , novel) Return to Night , novel) North Face , novel) The Charioteer , novel) The Last of the Wine , novel) The King Must Die , novel) The Bull from the Sea , novel) Lion in the Gateway , novel) The Mask of Apollo , novel) Fire from Heaven , novel) The Persian Boy , novel) The Nature of Alexander , biography) The Praise Singer , novel) Funeral Games , novel) Do you know something we don't?

8. Mary Renault Mary Renault, born Mary Challans is probably most well known for her historical novels set in the ancient world including the triology on Alexander the http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/pages/index.asp?site=1&l1=269&l2=645

9. Mary Renault - Wikiquote Mary Renault (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece; born Mary Challans http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Renault

Mary Renault From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. Mary Renault 4 September 13 December ) English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece; born Mary Challans edit Sourced How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? The King Must Die Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. The Bull from the Sea In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. The Mask of Apollo You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. The Mask of Apollo It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. The Praise Singer edit Unsourced If one examines the legend in this light, a well-defined personality emerges. It is that of a light-weight; brave and aggressive, physically tough and quick; highly sexed and rather promiscuous; touchily proud, but with a feeling for the underdog; resembling Alexander in his precocious competence, gift of leadership, and romantic sense of destiny. On her portrayal of Theseus in her books.

10. The Last Of The Wine, By Mary Renault Mary Renault brings Plato s dialogues alive in The Last of the Wine. http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth--112-The_Last_of_Wine_By_Mary_Renault.aspx

Home Support TAS Email Updates I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Ayn Rand, Anthem About TAS Ayn Rand Objectivism Advocacy ... %Title% Now only %Price%! Shop the Objectivism Store! Email this to a friend To: From: Add your message here. Printer Friendly The Last of the Wine, By Mary Renault by Roger Donway Reviewed Among the most enchanting works in all philosophy, surely, are the early dialogues of Plato, and it is the world of those dialogues that Mary Renault brings to life in The Last of the Wine (Random House, 1956). The time is the late fifth century B.C.; the place is Athens; and the narrator, Alexias, finds himself increasingly drawn to the circle of youths around Socrates. Yet even as Alexias is pulled into the Socratic circle, he is pulled still more powerfully into a love affair with Lysis, a older youth who also follows Socrates. From that beginning, Renault's novel spreads outward to encompass all of Athenian life. As athletes, scholars, and warriors-as well as young men of good family-Alexias and Lysis participate in the myriad affairs of their city, during the protracted conflict of the Peloponnesian War. Renault, taking as her model Thucydides' great history of that war, employs paired opposites to convey both the setting and the unfolding of the friendship between her heroes. Among the most prominent of these opposites are: boyhood versus manhood; family versus friendship; wife versus comrade; sport versus war; slavery versus freedom; oligar- chy versus democracy; Sparta versus Athens; reason versus tradition; and the life of action (embodied in the statesman Alcibiades) versus the life of the mind (embodied in the philosopher Socrates). But through them all runs the book's dominant opposition-mortal life versus transcendent love.

11. Mary Renault Mary Renault, according to some of the research I have been doing, was a lesbian. Often while reading, it seemed to me that such candid descriptions http://jackharper.org/books/index.php?PHPSESSID=d03a919c12da21ae2ea3e444d26a934f

12. Mary Renault Readers And Fic Writers' Journal Of all Mary Renault s books, The Funeral Games is my least favorite, and consequently the one I can bear to touch writing. There is a very brief episode in http://community.livejournal.com/maryrenault

You are viewing the community maryrenault Log in Create a LiveJournal Account Learn more Interest Region FAQ Email IM Info [Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends] Below are the most recent journal entries recorded in Mary Renault readers and fic writers ' LiveJournal: Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 9:01 pm shezan New Bagoas art! Posted for yoshikihide , who has problems with her account. (Click on the picture to see a larger version) (cross-posted) 6 Comments Comment on this Sunday, May 13th, 2007 11:17 pm hulamoth MR Book cover site Finally got around to updating The book covers site with the wonderful additions that people sent to me during the school year. I don't know if I'm going to be able to work on it much anymore. If anyone else has HTML (and minor JAVA) knowledge, and would like to take the site on, now's the time to speak up. (crossposted to maryrenaultfics ETA : Well, we got someone - will keep you updated. Thanks for looking. Comment on this Friday, April 6th, 2007 5:35 pm duncbabe The last person's post reminded me of a fic I had lying around! It's Alexander and Hephaestion; fairly short and about PG. Things He Couldn't See 2 Comments Comment on this 9:33 am artaxastra Bagoas Fic Sacred Fire A few years ago for Yuletide I did a Persian Boy fic in which Bagoas meets Thettalos in Alexandria some time after the end of The Funeral Games. I've done a sequel to it, in which Bagoas is in Memphis, shortly after Alexander's body is brought there.

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Encyclopedia Discussion Forgot Your Password? Not a Member Yet? JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Advertising Opportunities Terms of Service Alpha Index: A-B C-F G-K L-Q ... T-Z Subjects: A-B C-E F-L M-Z Renault, Mary (1905-1983) page: After five novels which included suggested lesbianism, Mary Renault turned to open male homosexuality in the last nine, which included The Charioteer and eight celebrated historical novels set in ancient Greece. Renault was born Eileen Mary Challans in London, September 4, 1905, daughter of Frank Challans, a physician, and Clementine (Baxter) Challans. (Her pen name, which she used throughout her career, was taken from Otway's Venice Preserved. Sponsor Message. Although she wrote short stories, radio plays, and nonfiction, Renault is best known as a novelist. The last eight of her fourteen novels, historical fictions set in ancient Greece, are the most highly regarded. All of her novels, however, deal at some level of explicitness with homosexuality: a diffused or suggested lesbianism in the first five and an openly presented male homosexuality in the last nine. Educated in London and Bristol, Renault read English at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, from which she graduated in 1928. In 1933, having rejected most of the conventional options available to women, Renault entered nurses' training. At Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, she met Julie Mullard, a fellow nurse who became her lifelong companion.

17. Mary Renault A bibliography of mary renault s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/mary-renault/

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18. Mary Renault Books (book Reviews) Reviews of The Alexander Trilogy and The Charioteer. http://dannyreviews.com/a/Mary_Renault.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest Mary Renault Book Reviews The Alexander Trilogy - Alexander the Great's childhood and final years; conflicts after his death The Charioteer Renault's Greek historical novels are recognised classics. The others include The King Must Die and The Bull From the Sea , about Theseus, The Praise Singer , about the poet Simonides, The Last of the Wine , about the Peloponnesian War, and The Mask of Apollo Subjects Titles Authors Best Books ... Book Reviews by Danny Yee

19. The Masks Of Mary Renault A Literary Biography Caroline Zilboorg Born Eileen mary Challans in London in 1905, mary renault wrote six successful contemporary novels before turning to the historical fiction about ancient http://press.umsystem.edu/spring2001/zilboorg.htm

UNIVERSITY OF M ISSOURI PRESS The Masks of Mary Renault A Literary Biography Caroline Zilboorg ISBN 0-8262-1322-7 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 bibliography, index, 13 illustrations, 2001 Born Eileen Mary Challans in London in 1905, Mary Renault wrote six successful contemporary novels before turning to the historical fiction about ancient Greece for which she is best known. While Renault's novels are still highly regarded, her life and work have never been completely examined. Caroline Zilboorg seeks to remedy this in The Masks of Mary Renault by exploring Renault's identity as a gifted writer and a sexual woman in a society in which neither of these identities was clear or easy. Although Renault's life was anything but ordinary, this fact has often been obscured by her writing. The daughter of a doctor, she grew up comfortably and attended a boarding school in Bristol. She received a degree in English from St. Hugh's College in Oxford in 1928, but she chose not to pursue an academic career. Instead, she decided to attend the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where she trained to be a nurse. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she was assigned to the Winford Emergency Hospital in Bristol and briefly worked with Dunkirk evacuees. She went on to work in the Radcliffe Infirmary's brain surgery ward and was there until 1945. It was during her nurse's training that Renault met Julie Mullard, who became her lifelong companion. This important lesbian relationship both resolved and posed many problems for Renault, not the least of which was how she was to write about issues at once intensely personal and socially challenging. In 1939, Renault published her first novel under a pseudonym in order to mask her identity. It was a time when she was struggling not only with her vocation (nursing and writing), but also with her sexual identity in the social and moral context of English life during the war.

20. Mary Renault Books Reviews A detailed analysis of the plot, setting, characters, theme, and structure of her best novels, and links to other novels with similar writing styles. http://www.allreaders.com/topics/Topic_567.asp

Mary Renault Read a book review online (click here to search reviews) Books Movies Sci-Fi/Fantasy ... History Author Renault's Book Reviews Message Board The Charioteer The Charioteer centers around Laurie ODell, a young Dunkirk veteran stationed in a military hospital. Laurie is a homosexual. While undergoing physical therapy for his shattered knee, Laurie falls in love with a young conscientious objector named Andrew Raynes. This love is complicated when an old school mate once again enters Laurie's life. Ralph Lanyon is also homosexual and has deep feelings for Laurie, but Laurie feels that he must remain loyal to A... The Last of the Wine Alexias grows up in Athens during the time of the Peloponnesian War. He meets Lysis, a student of Socrates, and the book traces their relationship as well. The real magic of this book lies not in the plot but in the intense realism (or at least believability) of Renault's re-creation of ancient Greece. You could believe she'd lived there. ... The Mask of Apollo This the story of Nikeratos, an actor in ancient Greece who, in addition to relating tales of his professional life, also describes his friendships with some of the big names of the time, including Plato and Aristotle. Although the political aspect is interesting, the best part is the extremely accurate and well-researched depiction of an actor's life in that era. Renault had a real gift for making history come alive through the eyes of her characters, ...

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