Winston Graham

Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June, 1908 – 10 July, 2003), was an English novelist, best known for the Poldark series of 12 historical novels set in Cornwall and the 1961 novel Marnie. He also wrote 29 other novels, a volume of short stories, the historical non-fiction The Spanish Armadas (1972), the 1983 non-fiction Polder's Cornwall, several plays, and an autobiography Memoirs of a Private Man, which was published posthumously in 2003. Quotes Demelza (novel) Demelza said with triumphant bitterness: No, Ross Poldark (novel) Ross, you do me wrong! And them too! One is a baronet an' lives at Werry House. He has asked me to tea and cards. One is a clergyman who has travelled all over the continent. One is an officer in the Navy. One even is a relative of yours. Demelza: A Novel of Cornwall, 1788-1790 Doubleday 1953 2nd novel in the Poldark series 9780006140832 https://books.google.com/books?id=GgrxD0DKOh4C&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=werry 214 (320 pages; 1st published in 1946 by Ward, Lock & Co.) In an evening in early October 1795 he returned from local calls across the river where he had prescribed his heroic treatment for two patients suffering from summer cholera and had drawn three pints of fluid from the stomach of a Edema dropsical Grain trade corn merchant. ...As he reached his front door Dr Behenna waved away a small group of people who had started up at his coming. In the main the less well-to-do went to the Apothecary apothecaries of the town, the poor made do with what nostrums they could brew themselves or buy for a penny from a traveling gypsy; but sometimes he helped an odd case without charge — he was not an ungenerous man and it ministered to his ego — so always a few waited for him, hoping for a moment's consultation on his doorstep. But today he was not in the mood. Chapter One 6th novel in the Poldark series The Four Swans https://books.google.com.bn/books?id=Se-dDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT10 Macmillan + ORM 2016 9781250124944 (1st published in 1976) On Thursday, the 25th October, 1810, a windy day with the first autumnal leaves floating down over the parks and commons of England, the George III#Illness old King went mad. The Stranger From The Sea Pan Macmillan 8th novel in the Poldark series 2011 9780330523240 https://books.google.com/books?id=HaHXYQyZXUsC&pg=PA3 3 (544 pages; 1st published in 1981 by William Collins, Sons William Collins, Sons & Co., Ltd.) Near St Mawes, which claims — I don't know how justly as against Penzance — the warmest climate in Britain, there is St Just's Church, St Just in Roseland St Just-in-Roseland: a dream of a church, dating from 1261, and a dream of a churchyard sloping down the hillside to the little tidal creek below. Death to me is never anything but ugly, yet surely no one could wish a calmer, sweeter resting place than the fortunate few who share this churchyard. Polder's Cornwall Pan Macmillan 2015 9781447299967 https://books.google.com/books?id=_nfCBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 33 (216 pages, illustrated with photographs; introduction by Andrew Graham (economist) Andrew Graham; 1st published in 1983 by The Bodley Head) Quotes about Winston Graham Poldark (1975 TV series) The television series made from his dozen Poldark historical novels were watched by 15 million people. In Cornwall, churches altered the times of their services to avoid clashing with Poldark.On video, the stories were the most popular historical series ever, after Pride_and_Prejudice_(1995_TV_series) Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice. They made Graham a fortune, though even at the height of their popularity — they were first shown from 1975 to 1977 — he himself remained a strangely (by modern standards) unknown figure. Dennis Barker, Obituary. Winston Graham 14 July 2003 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/14/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries ... there was something magical in the BBC’s Poldark (1975 TV series) first adaptation of Winston Graham’s long series of novels, something more than the tang of the sea and the dash of a handsome hero.Now, all these years later, the same Poldark (2015 TV series) Sunday night spell is being cast on up to 7 million households. Or at least on the women in them. If the comments on social media are any guide, then this is the night that men do anything they long to get away with (my boys stalk out muttering “We’ll leave you with your Cornish crap”), while their womenfolk (you begin to speak Poldark once you start watching it) remain glued to the television and to a romantic protagonist who seems to have trouble keeping his shirt on.... Graham was an expert writer of Thriller (genre) thrillers – including Marnie (novel) Marnie, later filmed by Alfred Hitchcock – as well as of this historical saga, and like many prolific and successful novelists, he recognised that although literary fiction may be complex, great popular novels have the underlying clarity of a fairytale. Sarah Crompton, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/26/poldark-bbc-adaptation-faithful-literary-origins-novel-series Is Poldark faithful to its literary origins? As 7 million viewers await the finale of Poldark, Sarah Crompton goes back to the novels to find the story’s appeal is as much to do with social cohesion as sex The Guardian 26 April 2015 External links Category:1908 births Category:2003 deaths Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:Memoirists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Novelists from England Category:People from Cornwall Category:People from Manchester Category:Playwrights from England Category:Short story writers from England