Angela Lambert

Angela Lambert (April 14, 1940 – September 26, 2007) was a British journalist, art critic and author, best known for "A Rather English Marriage".

Born as Angela Maria Helps to a civil servant and a German-born housewife. She was unhappy when sent to a girls’ boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics. She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working for ITN before joining "The Independent" newspaper in 1988.

Lambert suffered multiple immune disorders and hepatitis C (caught from a blood transfusion) which led to cirrhosis of the liver. Having survived a critical illness in February 2006, she never quite recovered, and became increasingly disabled. She lived in London and France (having bought a house in the Dordogne in 1972). She is survived by Tony Price, her partner of 21 years, and by her son and two daughters.

Novels

*"No Talking After Lights" (1990)
*"Love Among the Single Classes" (1990)
*"A Rather English Marriage" (1992)
*"The Constant Mistress" (1998)
*"The Property of Rain" (2001)

Non-fiction

*"Unquiet Souls: A Social History of the Illustrious, Irreverent, Intimate Group of British Aristocrats Known As "the Souls" (1987)
*"1939: The Last Season of Peace" (1989)
*"The Lost Life of Eva Braun" (2006)

External links

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/27/db2703.xml Obituary]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2539282.ece Obituary in "The Times", 27 September 2007]
* [http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/famousperson/lambert/2644549 Obituary and Public Tribute]