Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona MacCarthy OBE (born 1940) is a British biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th and 20th century arts, crafts and design.

MacCarthy was brought up in London. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey School and took a degree in English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She worked as a features writer and columnist on The Guardian before moving north to live in Sheffield. She married the designer David Mellor in 1966 and they had two children, Corin and Clare. David Mellor died in May 2009.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1997),[1] an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.

She is President of the Twentieth Century Society and a Vice-President of the Victorian Society.

She was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for services to art and design.

MacCarthy was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.[2]

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MacCarthy is well known for her arts essays and reviews, appearing regularly in The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books. She contributes frequently to TV and radio arts programmes.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. Retrieved 10 August 2010. 
  2. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59090. p. 11. 13 June 2009.

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