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Marilyn French: Obituary6 May 2009
The life and legacy of the writer.

Marilyn French died on 2 May 2009. She will be most widely remembered for her debut novel 'The Women’s Room'. Published in 1977, the book sold 20 million copies and became a classic of the women’s movement. Having read a manuscript copy, the writer Fay Weldon described it as “a book that changes lives”; a quote that still adorns the covers of modern editions. She joins Jenni to discuss Marilyn French’s legacy, as does Janet Todd, an academic who interviewed her soon after the publication of that provocative first novel.
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