Post modern Legendary Author

1. ANURADHA D. LIMKAR
HEAD,
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
VASUNDHARA KALA MAHAVIDYALAYA,
JULE SOLAPUR.
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF
DR. S. B. SAGARE
PRINCIPAL,
DBS GARAD MAHAVIDYALAYA
MOHOL (SOLAPUR)

2. Beryl Bainbridge (1934): Most of her novels are autobiographical, they present
the life she has lived through. She has fictionalised her uneasy childhood and the
period after II World War.

3. She has presented working lower middle class people their efforts to survive in
the post modern world. She has presented the impact of II World War on
common man and woman; especially on children.

4. Novels
A Weekend with Claude
Another Part of the Wood
Harriet Said
Sweet William
The Dressmaker
The Bottle Factory Outing
A Quiet Life,
Injury Time
Young Adolf
Winter Garden
Watson's Apology
Filthy Lucre, or The Tragedy of Andrew Ledwhistle and Richard Soleway
An Awfully Big Adventure
The Birthday Boys
Every Man for Himself
Master Georgie
According to Queeney
Volume of 2 Short Stories
Mum and Mr. Armitage: Selected Stories.
Collected Stories

5. III. Plays, Screenplays: An Awfully Big Adventure ,Sweet
Williams 1980 and The Dress Maker have been adapted for the
screen.
Television Plays: Tiptoe Through the Tulips, 1976; Blue Skies
from Now On, 1977;
The Warrior's Return (The Velvet Glove series)1977; Words
Fail Me, 1979;
The Journal of Bridget Hitler, with Philip Saville, 1981;
Somewhere More Central, 1981; Evensong
(Unnatural Causes series), 1986.
IV. Non-Fiction
English Journey; or, The Road to Milton Keynes.
Forever England: North and South.
Something Happened Yesterday.
Foreword, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals by Robert
Falcon Scott.
Contributor, Colin Haycraft
Editor, New Stories 6.
Front Row: Evenings at the Theatre,

6. Chapter V. Conclusion.
A Selected Bibliography.
A Selected Webliography.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter I. Introduction.
Chapter III. The Novels of Middle Phase.
•A Quite Life (1976)
•Injury Time (1977)
•Young Adolf (1978)
•Winter Garden (1980)
•Watson’s Apology (1984)
•Filthy Lucre (1986)
Chapter II. The Novels of Early Phase.
•A Weekend with Claude (1967)
•Another part of the Wood (1968)
•Harriet Said (1972)
•Sweet Williams (1973)
•The Dressmaker (1973)
•The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
Chapter IV. The Novels of Later Phase.
•An Awfully big Adventure (1989)
•The Birthday Boys (1991)
•Every Man For Himself (1996)
•Master Georgie (1996)
•According to Queeney (2001)

7. Chapter I : Introduction
Introduction: 1.1 Life and Biography:
Awards: Shortlisted for booker prize for 6times,
Guardian Fiction prize 1974,
Whitbread novel award for 2times 1977,
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature 1978,
Felicitated with James Tait Black Memorial prize
W.H. Smith Literary award,
Received D. Litt. from University of Liverpool in 1986,
Commonwealth writers Prize in 1999 and DBE in 2000,
David Cohen British Literature Prize jointly with Thom Gunn,
She has won The Heywood Hill Literary Prize of 2004.

8. 1.2 Bainbridge’s chief work:
1.3 Reviews of the Novels:
1.5 need of search or Detailed Statement
on the research problem and justification
of the research:

9. 2.1 Aims and Objectives of the Study
2.3 Hypothesis
2.4 Critical reviews of previous investigation or reviews
of Literature on Beryl Bainbridge’s Novels
2.5. Literary Influences Charles Dickens, Dostoevsky,
Stalky and Co. by Rudyard Kipling
2.6 Philosophical Influences

10. 2.7 Bainbridge’s Views on Art, Literature and Novel
2.8 Background
2.9 The Features of Post Modern period in the Novels
of Bainbridge:
3.0 Methodology: E. M. Foster, and Henry James
3.1 The Outline of the Thesis
3.2 Limitations of the study
3.3 limitations and Scope

11. Chapter II. The Novels of Early Phase.
1. A Weekend with Claude (1967)
2. Another part of the Wood (1968)
3. Harriet Said (1972)
4. Sweet Williams (1973)
5. The Dressmaker (1973)
6. The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
Introduction
2.1.1 Plot
2.1.2Characters
2.1.3Themes
2.1.4 Techniques
2.1.5 Setting
2.1.6 Symbolism and Imagery
2.1.7 Conclusion.

12. Chapter III. The Novels of Middle Phase.
A Quite Life (1976)
Injury Time (1977)
Young Adolf (1978)
Winter Garden (1980)
Watson’s Apology (1984)
Filthy Lucre (1986)
3.1.1Plot
3.1.2Characters
3.1.3Themes
3.1.4 Techniques
3.1.5 Setting
3.1.6 Symbolism and Imagery
3.1.7 Conclusion.

13. Chapter IV. The Novels of Later Phase.
An Awfully big Adventure (1989)
The Birthday Boys (1991)
Every Man For Himself (1996)
Master Georgie (1996)
According to Queeney (2001)
4.1.1Plot
4.1.2Characters,
4.1.3Themes
4.1.4 Techniques
4.1.5 Setting
4.1.6 Symbolism and Imagery 4.1.7 Conclusion

14. Chapter-V Conclusion
General Estimate and Observations:
Consider her place among the contemporary writers, like Jean
Rhys, Iris Murdoch, Henry Green, Franz Kafka.
Conclusion:
Bainbridge has a unique contribution in the post modern literature.
She is the most accomplished novelist of post modern period

15. I pay my warm tribute to the great spirit who has
enriched my life with her experiences that I
shared.
Thank you