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Brenda Maddox

Born

in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, The United States

February 24, 1932

Died

June 16, 2019

Genre

Biography, Memoir

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Born in Brockton, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1932, Brenda Lee Power Murphy graduated from Harvard University (class of 1953) with a degree in English literature and also studied at the London School of Economics. She was a book reviewer for The Observer, The Times, New Statesman, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and regularly contributed to BBC Radio 4 as a critic and commentator. Her biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, D.H. Lawrence, Nora Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and Rosalind Franklin have been widely acclaimed. She received the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the Whitbread Biography Prize.

Maddox was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.

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	Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA – A Powerful Biography of the Woman Airbrushed Out of Scientific History 4.12 avg rating — 2,598 ratings — published 2002 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce 4.04 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1988 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life 3.68 avg rating — 200 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats – A Biography of Contradictions, Supernatural Spirits, and the Women Who Shaped His Poetry 3.85 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	George Eliot in Love 3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maggie 3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eminent Lives - George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? 2.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pope and Contraception: The Diabolical Doctrine (Counterblasts #18) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The fact is that in two unhappy years, working in isolation except for Gosling, in a field new to her, she had come within two steps of answering the most exciting question in post-war science. What is more, she, unknowingly, had provided all the essential data for those who took the two brilliant leaps of intuition — to anti-parallel chains and base pairs — that cracked the problem.”
― Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

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“By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and the perfection of its truths - Humanity could be rather messy in comparison.”
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tags: rosalind-franklin, the-dark-lady-of-dna

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“In 1987, Hutton’s eighteenth-century discovery was acclaimed by the eminent science writer, Stephen Jay Gould. In Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle, he wrote of Hutton: ‘He burst the boundaries of time, thereby establishing geology’s most distinctive and transforming contribution to human thought – Deep Time.’35 The discovery, said Gould, imposed a ‘great temporal limitation’ upon human importance: ‘the notion of an almost incomprehensible immensity, with human habitation restricted to a millimicrosecond at the very end!”
― Brenda Maddox, Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

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