Victoria Glendinning CBE FRSL (née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster, and novelist. She is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for biography.
Books in order of publication:
A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter – 1969
Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer – 1977
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions – 1981
Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West – 1983
Rebecca West: A Life – 1987
The Grown-Ups – 1989
Trollope – 1992
Electricity – 1995
Sons and Mothers – 1996
Jonathan Swift – 1998
The Weekenders – 2001
Flight – 2002
Leonard Woolf – 2006
Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, Letters and Diaries 1941-1973 – 2009
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity – 2012
Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership – 2021