Michael Holroyd
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| - | '''Philippa Pullar''' (12 February 1935, in London – 7 September 1997 in London) was a British author and [[jet set]] personality best remembered for her exhaustively-researched 1975 biography of the Irish-American author [[Frank Harris]]. The biography involved great amounts of traveling and research, not least because Harris had intricately woven fact and fiction in his famous five-volume autobiography, ''[[My Life and Loves]]''. | + | '''Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|FRHistS|FRSL}} (born 27 August 1935) is an English biographer. |
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| - | Born Philippa King, she was daughter of an army major. She married Robert Pullar in 1958 and they had two sons. The marriage did not last and was dissolved before he died in 1996. | + | |
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| - | In later years Pullar became known as a devotee of [[New Age]] thought, and prior to her death from cancer advocated various methods of natural and [[alternative healing]]. | + | |
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| - | Pullar had an extraordinary relationship with [[Michael Holroyd]] (before he married the author [[Margaret Drabble]]) which is described in Holroyd's memoir ''Mosaic'', published after her death. | + | |
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| - | ==Books by Philippa Pullar== | + | |
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| - | ''Consuming Passions: A History of English Food and Appetite''. Dedicated "to Michael with my love" - 1970 | + | |
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| - | ''Frank Harris'' - 1975 | + | |
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| - | ''Gilded butterflies: The Rise and Fall of the London Season'' - 1978 | + | |
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| - | ''Special Friends'' - 1979 | + | |
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| - | ''The Shortest Journey'' - 1984 - {{ISBN|0-04-291018-8}} | + | |
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| - | ''To the Light'' - 1985 | + | |
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| - | ''Spiritual and Lay Healing'' - 1988 | + | |
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| - | (with Lilla Beck) ''Healing with Chakra Energy: Restoring the Natural Harmony of the Body'' - 1994 | + | |
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Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd Template:Post-nominals (born 27 August 1935) is an English biographer.
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