Roberts, Michèle
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1949- ) UK poet and author, poetry editor of Spare Rib 1975-1977. Her novels all tend to Fabulation in their expression of an articulate Feminist aesthetic, but two are of genre interest: The Wild Girl (1984) vigorously displaces the reminiscences of Mary Magdalene into what Christians might deem an unattractive Alternate History in which she and Jesus have sex; and The Book of Mrs Noah (1987) similarly engages its heroine in myth-rich concourse with the female Icons who engender the stories that make the world (see Mythology). [JC]
Michèle Brigitte Roberts
born Bushey, Hertfordshire: 20 May 1949
works
- The Wild Girl (London: Methuen, 1984) [hb/]
- The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene (London: Vintage, 2007) [vt of the above: pb/]
- The Book of Mrs Noah (London: Methuen, 1987) [hb/]
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