Background
As a child, Ann Schlee was brought up in the United States by her mother and grandparents until the end of the Second World War.
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Rhine Journey
(Like the Rhine, Charlotte Morrison was full of unsuspecte...)
Like the Rhine, Charlotte Morrison was full of unsuspected depths and hidden murmurings. On the surface, she was the unmarried Victorian aunt, whose sparse, unfulfilled life echoed the expectations of those she drudged for. But, happily boating down the Rhine with her brother and his wife, the sight of a fellow traveller, Edward Newman, releases the hissing flood waters of her subconscious. Dark and dangerous, they sweep Charlotte onward towards the watershed of her life. 'The quality of the writing is so extraordinarily high that I could hardly believe it was a first novel' Margaret Forster 'I raced through Rhine Journey. Mrs Schlee's simple and direct style makes for very easy reading. This is a first novel of considerable promise.' Olivia Manning 'A journey down the Rhine in the company of Ann Schlee is the purest, simples pleasure' Sunday Telegraph
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Ann Schlee
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Inter alia she attended boarding school in England and later studied at Somerville College, Oxford.
Career
She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. They later moved to Sudan and Eritrea. Schlee has spent much of her writing career in London being quite active in the 1970s to the 1990s.
Achievements
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The Vandal (Macmillan, 1980) is a science fiction novel set in the future. Beside winning the 1980 Guardian Prize it was a commended runner up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year"s best children"s book by a British subject. Rhine Journey (Henry Holt & Company, 1981, ) was shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize, recognising the year"s best novel.
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The guns of darkness
(A girl observes the tragic decline of nineteenth-century ...)
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Rhine Journey
(Like the Rhine, Charlotte Morrison was full of unsuspecte...)
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The guns of darkness
