Lord Byron in all his controversial splendor - the long-awaited, authoritative biography With this brilliant book, Fiona MacCarthy has produced the most important work on Byron in nearly half a century.She contributed to TV and radio arts programmes. MacCarthy is known for her arts essays and reviews, which appeared in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books. She came to wider attention as a biographer with a once-controversial study of the Roman Catholic craftsman and sculptor Eric Gill, first published in 1989. She later became a biographer and critic. She left The Guardian in 1969, briefly becoming women's editor of the London Evening Standard before settling in Sheffield. She was appointed as the newspaper's design correspondent, working as a features writer and columnist, sometimes using a pseudonymous byline to avoid two articles appearing in the same issue. MacCarthy began her career on The Guardian in 1963 initially as an assistant to the women's editor Mary Stott. She came to wider attention as a biographer with a once-controversial study of the Roman Catholic craftsman and sculptor Eric Gill, first published i Fiona MacCarthy was an English biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-Century art and design.
Fiona MacCarthy was an English biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-Century art and design.
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