Antonia Susan Drabble Byatt, the one who has been writing during all her life stats: …words have been all my life, all my life-this need is like the Spider’s need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out-the silk is her life, her home, her safety-her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
This sense that writing ended real, or even extra real, one’s knowledgeable growth and leaning and one’s capabilities certainly pervades Byatt’s mature work, in both her fiction and nonfiction. In several ways, Byatt is a writer whose writing has been self-reflexive and deliberately formed. According to her words express the author and, “Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.”
On the contrary to those writers who prefer to distinct their fiction from their nonfiction, she has never desired such a distinction: “From my early childhood, reading and writing seemed to me to be points on a circle. Greedy reading made me want to write, as …show more content…
Both parents, all of her sisters and Byatt attended Cambridge, and Byatt remembers being told, as early as the age of five, that she would go to Cambridge. Speaking of her university years seems to be pleasant for her, “It was paradisal,”. Adding then, “We were the pre-political generation. We believed in unfashionable concepts such as objectivity impartiality, listening to people, pragmatics, suspension of judgment.” At the same time Byatt says of herself and other women that “we had fought, much “we had fought, much harder than the men, who outnumbered us eleven to one, to be allowed to study at Cambridge , and we were fatally torn, when thinking of our futures, by hops of marriage …[and] some works.” She graduated from Cambridge with a B.A. degree, with honors, in