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G.E. Trevelyan

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G.E. Trevelyan


Born
in Bath, Somerset, England, The United Kingdom
September 17, 1903

Died
February 11, 1941


Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan was an English novelist. She was born on 17 October 1903 in Bath, Somerset, England. She attended Princess Helena College, then located in Ealing, and was confirmed at St Peter's Church, Ealing in 1920. She attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1923 to 1927, graduating with a second-class degree.

While at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, she won - as the first female winner - the Newdigate Prize for Poetry with her 250-line poem in blank verse titled, Julia, Daughter of Claudius. After leaving Oxford, she moved to London, where she first lived in a women's residence hotel in Bermondsey. She later lived as a lodger in several locations in Kensington.

Trevelyan wrote eight groundbreaking novels between 1932 and 1941, b
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Two Thousand Million Man-Power

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As It Was in the Beginning

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Trance by Appointment

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Hot-House

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Theme with Variations

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A War Without a Hero

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