Inspirational Quotes by Marina Warner (English Literary Critic, Writer)

Marina Sarah Warner (b.1946) is a British novelist, critic, cultural historian, and mythographer. She is best known for the actual or imaginary historical events and mythological symbols that pervade her works literally and subliminally.

Born in London, Warner grew up in Egypt, where her father worked as a manager for an oil company. She studied French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford, earning her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. Warner has held academic positions at the University of Essex, the University of Hull, and the University of Cambridge, among others. She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Much of Warner’s non-fiction writing concerns mythology and cultural archetypes, especially about the female sex. Her BBC’s Reith Lectures on ‘Six Myths of Our Time’ (1994) were published as Managing Monsters (1994.) This feminist analysis of various aspects of popular culture explored the adaptation of myth and folklore to modern usage.

Other publications include Alone of all her Sex (1976,) Monuments and Maidens (1985,) and From the Beast to the Blonde (1994.) Her fiction includes the novels The Lost Father (1988,) Indigo (1992,) which is a reworking of The Tempest, The Leto Bundle (2001,) and the short-story collection Mermaids in the Basement (1993.)

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