![]() While Strange focuses on the relationship of two men, Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell, the stories in Ladies focus on the power women gain through magic.Ĭlarke's second novel, Piranesi, was published in September 2020, winning the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.Ĭlarke was born on 1 November 1959 in Nottingham, England, the eldest daughter of a Methodist minister and his wife. Both Clarke's debut novel and her short stories are set in a magical England and written in a pastiche of the styles of 19th-century writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Two years later, she published a collection of her short stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (2006). ![]() For the next decade, she published short stories from the Strange universe, but it was not until 2003 that Bloomsbury bought her manuscript and began work on its publication. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time. Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is an English author known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history. ![]() ![]() The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories ![]()
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