Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature

M a r g a r e t D r a b b le  
(b o rn in 1 9 3 9 )
Margaret Drabble is an English novelist. She has become 
popular for realistic portrayals o f middle-class women .
Drabble’s early novels, such as “A Summer Bird-Cage” 
(1963) and “The Garrick Year” (1964) are considered to be 
almost autobiographical studies of conflicts, young women 
experience in their careers, marriages, and family lives. Her 
best novels contain detailed and perceptive analyses of dilemmas 
women face in modern world (e.g. “The Needle’s Eye”, written 
in 1972.)
Her novels “The Realms of Gold” (1975) and “The Ice Age” 
include a larger number o f characters representing a broad section 
o f English society.
Drabble’s later works are characterized by more emphasis on

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economic, political and social problems. In her novels “The 
Middle Ground” (1980) and “The Radiant Way” (1987) she de­
scribes how social change influences the human characters. In 
“Natural Curiosity” (1989) and “The Gates of Ivory” (1992) the 
author continues the social concern and develops characters of 
the earlier works.
Margaret Drabble has also written historical works and literary 
criticism. She was the editor of the fifth edition of “The Oxford 
Companion to English Literature”. (1985).
Susan Hill 
(born in 1942)
Susan Hill was bom in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and educated 
at Scarborough and Coventry grammar schools and K ing’s 
College, University o f London. At the beginning of her career 
she wrote literary criticism for the Coventry Evening Telegraph 
for five years and reviewed fiction for several periodicals.
Since 1963 Susan Hill is known as a full-time writer and the 
author of several novels, volumes of short stories, essays and a 
number of plays. Her popular works include: “The Enclosure”
(1961), “Do Me a Favour” (1963), “Gentleman and Ladies” (1968), 
“A Change for the better” (1969), “The Albatross and Other Sto- 
ries”(1970), “I Am the King ofthe Castle” (1971). “Strange Meet­
ing’l l 971), “The Bird o f Night” (1972), “In the Springtime ofthe 
Year” (1974), “The Land o f Lost Content”(1976), “The Magic 
Apple Tree: A Country Year” (1982) and many other works. Her

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works received considerable attention and were awarded several 
times. In 1972 she was elected a Fellow ofthe Royal Society of 
Literature.
Susan Hill is highly appreciated as a contemporary writer of 
psychological fiction. Her style is powerful in its simplicity and 
unexpected juxtaposition of images.