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Born in london as eileen mary challans in 1905 and educated at the university of oxford, mary renault trained as a nurse at oxfords radcliffe infirmary. The charioteer was written shortly after her arrival in south africa, the country that would be her home until her death from cancer in 1983. Renault masters a lyrical style, meticulous and probing, and. The mary renault fan fiction the other fan fiction written by this writer was all. Originally published in the united states in 1959, the charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during world war ii that stands with gore vidals the city and the pillar and. Mary renaults portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her lifelong passion for the classics.
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