Sarah Waters

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sarah Waters
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 21, 1966(1966-07-21)
Age	58
Birthplace	Wales
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Cancer

Sarah Waters Biography

Sarah Waters is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 21, 1966 in Wales, United Kingdom. Famous as the author of Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet as well as other novels about lesbians featuring Victorian locations The Welsh author of historical fiction won two awards: the Somerset Maugham Award and the Stonewall Book Award for a 1999 novel called Affinity.

The novel she wrote Fingersmith was made into an BBC One series starring Her novel Fingersmith was adapted into a BBC One series starring Sally Hawkins..

This novel is set in the 1920s, in the social and economic aftermath of World War I. Households are in reduced circumstances and Frances Wray and her mother have to take in lodgers to keep going. The developing lesbian relationship between Frances and lodger Lilian Barber provides a complex backdrop for a murder investigation that takes up the latter half of the book. The Observer said: “The inimitable Sarah Waters handles a dramatic key change with aplomb in her new novel set in 1920s south London”. The Telegraph described it as “eerie, virtuoso writing”.

Also set in the 1940s, The Little Stranger also differs from Waters’ previous novels. It is her first with no overtly lesbian characters. Initially, Waters set out to write a book about the economic changes brought by socialism in postwar Britain, and reviewers note the connection with Evelyn Waugh. During the novel’s construction, it turned into a ghost story, focusing on a family of gentry who own a large country house they can no longer afford to maintain.

She as well as her sister grew up within Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales as the kids from Ron Mary Waters. Mary Waters.

Sarah Waters Net Worth

Sarah Waters is one of the richest Novelist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sarah Waters 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Kent’s University of Kent, she obtained her master’s degree from Lancaster University and her doctorate from Queen Mary University of London.

Her book The Night Watch was adapted into an BBC2 TV special which first aired in.

After Milford Haven Grammar School, Waters attended university and earned degrees in English literature. She received a BA from the University of Kent, an MA from Lancaster University, and a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. Her PhD thesis, entitled Wolfskins and togas : lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present, served as inspiration and material for future books. As part of her research she read 19th-century pornography, in which she came across the title of her first book, Tipping the Velvet. However, her literary influences are also found in the popular classics of Victorian literature, such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and the Brontës, and in the contemporary novelists that combine a keen interest in Victoriana with a post-modernist approach to fiction, especially A.S. Byatt and John Fowles. Angela Carter’s ‘Nights at the Circus’ had a huge influence on her début novel as well, and Waters praises her for her literary prose, her “common touch”, and her commitment to feminism.

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Who is Sarah Waters Dating?

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Her debut work was the Victorian picaresque Tipping the Velvet, published by Virago in 1998. The novel took 18 months to write. The book takes its title from Victorian slang for cunnilingus. Waters describes the novel as a “very upbeat […] kind of a romp”.

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Sarah Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Sarah Waters celebrates birthday on July 21 of every year.

It won a 1999 Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

Which Sarah Waters book should I read?

To sum up: Sarah Waters is freaking brilliant and everyone should read at least one of her novels. If you’re into gothic romance, go with Fingersmith. Gothic horror, go with The Little Stranger. Not into gothic, go with Tipping the Velvet.

Is the handmaiden based on Fingersmith?

Indeed, for all intents and purposes, The Handmaiden is an adaptation of British writer Waters’s third novel Fingersmith , even though the film transports a gothic tale of crime set in nineteenth century England to Korea of the 1930s when the Korean peninsula was under Japanese occupation.

How does the book Fingersmith end?

Maud physically tries to stop him, knowing how the truth would devastate Sue; a scuffle between Maud, Gentleman and Mrs Sucksby ensues, and in the confusion, Gentleman is stabbed by the knife Sue had brought with her to kill Maud. He bleeds to death.

What is a Fingersmith in Victorian England?

Fingersmith (slang), slang for a midwife or pickpocket.

Is The Handmaid's a true story?

The Handmaid’s Tale is NOT based on a true story. The drama is science fiction, set in a dystopian future where a totalitarian regime has overthrown the US government and created the Republic of Gilead. But the show, based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name, is inspired by religious and political history.