5/19/2023 0 Comments Melmoth by sarah perry![]() ![]() I wrote about the power of place in my PhD thesis, particularly the importance of buildings in the Gothic (a genre which I find myself inhabiting without ever having meant to). Her doctoral thesis was on the Gothic in the writing of Iris Murdoch, and Perry has subsequently published an article on the Gothic in Aeon magazine. Perry has a PhD in creative writing from Royal Holloway University where her supervisor was Sir Andrew Motion. She graduated from Anglia Polytechnic University (now Anglia Ruskin University) with a degree in English Literature then worked briefly in the Civil Service. She married her husband Robert Perry at the age of 20. She attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls. She says this early immersion in old literature and the King James Bible profoundly influenced her writing style. Growing up with almost no access to contemporary art, culture, and writing, she filled her time with classical music, classic novels and poetry, and church-related activities. Perry was born, the youngest of five sisters, in Chelmsford, Essex, into a family of devout Christians who were members of a Strict Baptist church. ![]() Her work has been translated into 22 languages. ![]() She has had three novels published, all by Serpent's Tail: After Me Comes the Flood (2014), The Essex Serpent (2016) and Melmoth (2018). Sarah Grace Perry FRSL (born 28 November 1979) is an English author. Royal Holloway University, Chelmsford County High School for Girls ![]()
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