Hilary Bailey

Hilary Bailey
Born	(1936-09-19)19 September 1936
Died	11 January 2017(2017-01-11) (aged 80)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge

Hilary Bailey (19 September 1936 – 11 January 2017) was a British writer, critic and editor.

Life

Bailey attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was a founder-member of the Cambridge University Women's Union.^[1] She was born in Bromley, Kent.

Her books include Polly Put the Kettle On, Mrs Mulvaney, Hannie Richards and All the Days of My Life, with a heroine who suffers the fate of all women who step away from what is expected of them. She wrote a biography of Vera Brittain, and sequels to Jane Eyre and The Turn of the Screw, a novel called Miles and Flora, which takes place some time after the original and resurrects one of the main characters. Bailey reviewed chiefly for The Guardian, was active in the so-called New Wave of science fiction and edited volumes 7–10 of the New Worlds Quarterly series, and was coauthor of The Black Corridor (1969) with Michael Moorcock, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1978.^[2][3] Two of Bailey's science fiction short stories appeared in anthologies edited by Terry Carr. The anthology titles are On Our Way to the Future^[4] (1970) and Universe 5^[5] (1974). She was a prominent and much-anthologised writer associated with the science fiction New Wave.

She was editing North Sea Island, the sequel to her dystopian novel Fifty-First State when she died.

Bailey had three children, Sophie, Kate and Max, as well as three grandchildren Alex, Tom and Bobby.^[1]

Books

• Polly Put the Kettle On^[6] (1975)
• Mrs. Mulvaney^[7] (1978)
• All the Days of My Life^[8] (1984)
• Hannie Richards, Or, The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife^[9] (1985)
• The Giant Book of Stories^[10] (1986)
• Vera Brittain: The Story of the Woman Who Wrote Testament of Youth^[11] (non-fiction) (1987)
• As Time Goes By^[12] (1988)
• A Stranger to Herself^[13] (1989) (aka She Was a Dreadful Woman^[14])
• In Search of Love, Money and Revenge^[15] (1990)
• The Cry from Street to Street^[16] (1992)
• Cassandra: Princess of Troy^[17] (1993)
• Frankenstein's Bride: The Sequel to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein^[18] (1995)
• Miles and Flora: A Sequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw^[19] (1997)
• Mrs. Rochester: A Sequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre^[20] (1997)
• Elizabeth and Lily^[21] (1997)
• After the Cabaret^[22] (1998)
• Connections^[23] (2000)
• Fifty-First State^[24] (2008)
• Diana: The Ghost Biography^[25] (2009)
• Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes^[26] (2012)
• Did We Meet on Grub Street?: A Publishing Miscellany^[27] (2014)

Short stories

• Breakdown^[28] (1963)
• The Fall of Frenchy Steiner^[29] (1964)
• In Reason's Ear^[30] (1965) (as Pippin Graham)
• Be Good Sweet Man^[31] (1966)
• Devil of a Drummer^[32] (1967)
• The Little Victims^[33] (1967)
• Dr. Gelabius^[34] (1968)
• Agatha Blue (1970)
• Dogman of Islington (1970)
• Twenty-Four Letters from Underneath the Earth (1971)
• A Chronicle of Blackton (1972)
• Bella Goes to the Dark Tower (1973)
• On Board the Good Ship Venus (1974)
• The Ramparts (1974)
• Sisters (1976)
• Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Time and Space (1980) (aka Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Space and Time and Everything Blowing Up)

References

1. Ramsey, P.S. (2007). "Hilary Bailey". Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works (Online resource). Literary Reference Center – via EBSCO.
2. Andrew Harrison (24 July 2015). "Michael Moorcock: 'I think Tolkien was a crypto-fascist'". New Statesman.
3. "Bailey, Hilary", The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE), 21 January 2017.
4. Carr, Terry (ed.). On Our Way to the Future. ASIN B000BPRO9O.
5. Carr, Terry (ed.). Universe 5. ASIN B00005X280.
6. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1975). Polly Put the Kettle On. Constable. ISBN 978-0094606500.
7. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1978). Mrs. Mulvaney. Constable. ISBN 978-0094619104.
8. Bailey, Hilary (October 1986). All the Days of My Life. Random House Publishing. ISBN 978-0449131541.
9. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1985). Hannie Richards, Or, The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife. Random House. ISBN 978-0394550046.
10. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1986). The Giant Book of Stories. Galley Press. ISBN 978-0861366835.
11. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1987). Vera Brittain: The Story of the Woman Who Wrote Testament of Youth. Lives of Modern Women. ISBN 978-0140080032.
12. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1988). As Time Goes By. Constable. ISBN 978-0094646605.
13. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1990). A Stranger to Herself. Pan Books. ISBN 978-0330316057.
14. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1989). She Was a Dreadful Woman. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0333474624.
15. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1990). In Search of Love, Money and Revenge. ISBN 978-0333474617.
16. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1992). The Cry From Street to Street. Constable. ISBN 978-0094714502.
17. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1993). Cassandra: Princess of Troy. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224029056.
18. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1995). Frankenstein's Bride: The Sequel to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671719173.
19. Bailey, Hilary (7 April 1998). Miles and Flora: A Sequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Touchstone. ISBN 978-0684817316.
20. Bailey, Hilary. Mrs. Rochester. ISBN 978-0671516727.
21. Bailey, Hilary. Elizabeth and Lily. ISBN 978-0751516722.
22. Bailey, Hilary. After the Cabaret. ISBN 978-0316643955.
23. Bailey, Hilary. Connections. ISBN 978-0727855718.
24. Bailey, Hilary (10 April 2024). Fifty-First State. Severn House. ISBN 978-0727866936.
25. Tennant, Emma; Bailey, Hilary (10 April 2024). Diana: The Ghost Biography. Bliss. ISBN 978-1906413002.
26. Bailey, Hilary (15 November 2012). Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1448209507.
27. Bailey, Hilary; Tennant, Emma; Elliot, David (7 April 2024). Did We Meet on Grub Street?: A Publishing Miscellany. Quartet. ISBN 978-0704372986.
28. Bailey, Hilary (October 1963). Carnell, John (ed.). "Breakdown". New Worlds. Vol. 35, no. 135.
29. Bailey, Hilary (July–August 1964). Moorcock, Michael (ed.). "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner". New Worlds. Vol. 48, no. 143.
30. Bailey, Hilary (June 1965). Bonfilioli, Kyril (ed.). "In Reason's Ear". Science Fantasy. No. 73.
31. Bailey, Hilary (October 1966). Moorcock, Michael (ed.). "Be Good Sweet Man". New Worlds. Vol. 50, no. 167.
32. Bailey, Hilary (1967). Hill, Douglas Arthur (ed.). The Devil His Due.
33. Bailey, Hilary (November 1967). Ferman, Edward L. (ed.). "The Little Victims". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Vol. 33, no. 5.
34. Bailey, Hilary (April 1968). Moorcock, Michael; Sallis, James (eds.). "Dr. Gelabius". New Worlds. No. 181.

External links

• Hilary Bailey at Fantastic Fiction
• Hilary Bailey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Hilary Bailey at The Science Fiction Encyclopedia