Background
Barbara was born in 1944 in New Zealand.
Barbara Ewing
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Barbara Ewing graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, England, United Kingdom
Barbara Ewing moved to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London.
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Barbara Ewing graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, England, United Kingdom
Barbara Ewing moved to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London.
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing
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1978
(Ewing tells the story of a drama school class reunion. Th...)
Ewing tells the story of a drama school class reunion. The former students, now in their fifties, discuss with each other their successes and failures while reminiscing about their years at the school. Some of them are movie stars, others have earned small parts, and others have quit acting altogether. The story also gives insights into the universal problems that are associated with aging.
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1997
(Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, ...)
Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after the two English princesses. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret Rose still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. And against the frankly odd, strained and curiously English household she inhabits in a New Zealand city, it is hard to make out the truth. So Margaret abandons what her parents think is right: learning English history, the French language, listening to comedy shows on the World Service and returning home on the 9.30 tram and maps out a course of her own. She studies Maori at University, makes friends with the wayward Emily (daughter of the soon to be Prime Minister of New Zealand) and shy, independent Prudence. As a trio they study hard for their degrees, work by day at the local Government offices and by night sing, drink and laugh with the local Maori people - and fall in love. A new world, an enchanting world, and one with an underbelly of struggle, colour, passion and even violence. Far removed from the closed, ordered life of Margaret Rose's family, but perhaps not so detached from their own, secret history...
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1999
(London 1849. The capital city is living in fear. Cholera ...)
London 1849. The capital city is living in fear. Cholera is everywhere. Eminent MP Sir Charles Cooper decides it is too risky for his younger daughter, the strangely beautiful and troubled Harriet, and sends her - but not her beloved sister Mary - to the countryside.
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2002
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2005
(Unable to find stage work, actresses Cordelia Preston and...)
Unable to find stage work, actresses Cordelia Preston and Rillie Spoons need to find a way of making a living. Cordelia remembers the skills of her aunt and sets out to be a phreno-mesmerist, advising couples on their compatibility and enlightening women on The Gentle Intricacies of the Wedding Night'. Cordelia finds that she does indeed possess the gift for mesmerism, and as her popularity grows, she and Rillie are finally living their dream. But events from Cordelia's past return to haunt her, and the women become embroiled in a scandal that threatens to ruin not only them but those they love...
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2007
(1765. Filipo di Vecellio of Florence, portrait painter, i...)
1765. Filipo di Vecellio of Florence, portrait painter, is the toast of London: rich, successful, and married to Angelica, known as the most beautiful woman in the city. Their Pall Mall home is the hub of the art world; their impressive social gatherings run so smoothly by Filipo's silent sister, Francesca. But beneath the surface, the house conceals a swarm of dangerous secrets. Where does Francesca di Vecellio go as the sun sets over Covent Garden? And why are there always candles lit in her attic, while no candles burn for her brother's exquisite wife?
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2009
(New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and b...)
New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the mysterious woman in the Big Top who can help so many others - but she cannot unlock dark, literally unspeakable, memories of her own. In London, memories fester in the mind of an old and venomous duke of the realm. He plots, with an unscrupulous lawyer (and a huge financial reward) against the mother and the daughter: to kill one, and to abduct the other and bring her across the Atlantic to him: She is mine. The actress and mesmerist Cordelia Preston and her daughter Gwenlliam live with their unusual family in the exciting new city among exciting new ideas: the telegraph, the daguerrotype, anaesthesia, table-tapping. And among the dangerous street-gangs of New York also, whose raw violence meets Cordelia and Gwenlliam and those that they love, with unexpected results.
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2011
(The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men...)
The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to young Mattie Stacey, they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. She doesn't care that they dress up in sparkling gowns to attend society balls as 'Fanny and Stella'. She only cares that they are kind to her, make her laugh, and pay their rent on time. Then one fateful night, Fanny and Stella are arrested, and Mattie – outraged but staunch – is dragged into a shocking court trial, hailed in newspapers all over England as 'The Scandal of the Century'.
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2014
Barbara was born in 1944 in New Zealand.
Barbara Ewing graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a Bachelor of Arts in English before moving to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London.
Barbara Ewing made her film debut in the horror film Torture Garden (1967) for Amicus Productions, followed by Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) with Christopher Lee for Hammer Films. Both movies were directed by Freddie Francis.
Her novel Strangers was published in 1978. Publishers Weekly contributor Barbara A. Bannon referred to Strangers as an “arresting novel” and called Ewing “a novelist of considerable promise.” Even though a Kirkus Reviews critic wrote that the novel’s “narration is pleasantly straightforward,” the same reviewer found Strangers “bland” and “rather drippy.” Library Journal contributor Mary Soete found the story underdeveloped but praised what she called Ewing’s “run-on style” because it portrays the main character’s “breathless innocence.”
In The Actresses, Ewing tells the story of a drama school class reunion. “Barbara Ewing allows her readers to dive deeply into the lives of her characters,” stated Manon Atta in the online site Pure Fiction. Atta wrote that The Actresses is “immensely perceptive, spiced with delightful humor and a real understanding of human nature.”
Her 1989 one-woman show, Alexandra Kollontai, about the only woman in Lenin's cabinet in 1917 was a great hit. More recent TV appearances have included episodes of Casualty, Doctors and Holby City on the BBC, and The Bill and Peak Practice on ITV.
Barbara Ewing is a British writer and actress, who had a full and varied career in theatre, television, and film, in both the UK and New Zealand. She has published nine, mainly historical, novels. The television role for which she is best known is that of Bradley Hardacre's mistress Agnes Fairchild in the Granada Television comedy series Brass, alongside Timothy W.
(Unable to find stage work, actresses Cordelia Preston and...)
2007(Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, ...)
1999(New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and b...)
2011(The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men...)
2014(Ewing tells the story of a drama school class reunion. Th...)
1997(London 1849. The capital city is living in fear. Cholera ...)
2002(1765. Filipo di Vecellio of Florence, portrait painter, i...)
2009
