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About Angela ThirlwellAngela Thirwell

Angela Thirlwell likes to push the boundaries of biography. She used a thematic spots of time approach in William and Lucy and interpreted Ford Madox Brown through the lenses of the four women in his life in Into the Frame. Thirlwell read English at St. Annes College Oxford and lectured in English and Theatre Studies for many years for the Faculty of Continuing Education Birkbeck College University of London. Yale University Press published her first biography William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis in 2003. Into the Frame: the four loves of Ford Madox Brown was published by Chatto & Windus in 2010 and in paperback by Pimlico in 2011. She wrote The Game of Life for the Catalogue to the Ford Madox Brown Exhibition shown in Manchester and Ghent in 2011/12. Angela has given a wide range of talks on Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Ford on art and on Biography at literary festivals conferences museums and galleries in England France Italy and the U.S.A. These include the Wallace Collection the Walker Gallery in Liverpool Manchester Art Gallery the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge the Oxford Literary Festival the University Womens Club Kings College London Words by the Water in Keswick Burgh House and Kenwood House in Hampstead Hofstra University USA and Kings Place in London for a Guardian Masterclass on biography. Shes been the external examiner for the highly regarded M.A. in Biography at the University of Buckingham. The course uses The Folio Anthology of Autobiography Thirlwell edited in 1994 ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb inscriptions to the modern day. Angela appeared in a Culture Show Special on BBC2 about Ford Madox Ford grandson of Ford Madox Brown and author of Parades End.