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Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads, The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennett's house in Camden Town. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move, with her van, to his front drive. Initially reluctant, she agreed - and Bennett landed himself a tenancy that went on for fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is probably Alan Bennett's best-known work of non-fiction, and follows his other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.… (plus d'informations)
En 1974, cuando Miss Shepherd y su furgoneta se instalaron definitivamente en el jardín de la casa de Alan Bennett, ya hacía varios años que ambas eran conocidas en el barrio. Tras algunos extraños encuentros, y después de que algunos gamberros comenzaran a atacarla, Alan Bennett le sugirió que pasara las noches en un cobertizo de su jardín. Aunque, afirma el escritor, él jamás se engañó pensando que su impulso obedecía a razones puramente caritativas; aquel sadismo le había perturbado demasiado, se pasaba el día vigilando a Miss Shepherd, y así no podía escribir. Y éste fue el comienzo de una convivencia que duraría quince años, hasta la muerte de la excéntrica, reservada y digna Miss Shepherd, una persona y una presencia muy reales, y con más de una identidad y una vida, como descubrió Bennett después de su muerte.
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'I ran into a snake this afternoon,' Miss Shepherd said. 'It was coming up Parkway. It was a long, grey snake - a boa constrictor possibly. It looked poisonous. It was keeping close to the wall and seemed to know its way. I've a feeling it may have been headed for the van.' I was relieved that on this occasion she didn't demand that I ring the police, as she regularly did if anything out of the ordinary occurred.
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Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.
William Hazlitt, 'On the Knowledge of Character' (1822)
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Her grave in the Islington St Pancras Cemetery is scarcely less commodious than the narrow space she slept in the previous twenty years. It is unmarked, but I think as someone so reluctant to admit her name or divulge any information about herself, she would not have been displeased by that.
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The Lady in the Van is the title of two distinct works by Alan Bennett, a prose narrative (1989) and a play (2000). This work record is for the prose narrative. Please do not combine it with the record for the play.
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Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads, The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennett's house in Camden Town. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move, with her van, to his front drive. Initially reluctant, she agreed - and Bennett landed himself a tenancy that went on for fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is probably Alan Bennett's best-known work of non-fiction, and follows his other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.
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