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Jeanette Winterson: Biography
Jeanette Winterton was born in England in the Northern city of Manchester in August 1959. Her mother was unable to support her, so she was put up for adoption. In January 1960, was adopted by John and Constance Winterson and moved to their home in Accrington, Lancashire. Her adoptive parents were Pentecostal Christians, and Jeanette was raised to fulfil a role as a missionary. Her first sermons were written by the time she was just six years old.
Pentecostal Christianity is a form of Evangelical Protestantism. The religion is characterised by the belief that the Bible is without any errors and is often interpreted literally.
As she grew older, her strictly Pentecostal Christian upbringing was at odds with her LGBTQ+ sexuality. Her family organised an exorcism with the help of the church to rid her of her preference for relationships with other women. At sixteen, in 1975, she was given an ultimatum and had
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Jeanette Winterson
English writer (born 1959)
Jeanette WintersonCBE FRSL (born 27 August 1959)[citation needed] is an English author.
Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing. She has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the St. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novels have been translated to almost 20 languages.[2]
Early life and education
Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960.[3& Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author. (1959- ) UK author, much of whose work juggles elements out of the Fantastika toolkit to dramatize deeply held arguments about Gender (see also Feminism); as her work edges constantly into the allegorical it is, however, not easy to think of her as a natural author of the fantastic, though her work is too various and transgressive for her to be categorized as a Mainstream Writer of SF. After her nonfantastic first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Boating for Beginners (1985) clearly allegorizes the circumstances it depicts, with a contemporary pleasure boat owner named Noah who has created a God (in passages based on the creation of the Frankenstein Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [1818]; for Frankissstein [2019] see below); this "God" then "instructs" him to return the world to the good old days, when sins were punished and women relegated to domestic roles: or else [for Allegories, Christian Fantasy, Flood and (below) Twice-Told see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links
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