However, it was the previous travels she took through in Greece that resulted in her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece. She traveled considerably throughout Africa and has gone up the eastern coast to Mombasa and Zanzibar. That being said, they were still critical of the less liberal aspects of this new homeland, and participated in the Black Sash movement against apartheid during the fifties. They were able to make a home together in the new land without causing any outrage they had occasionally provoked at home. Here, they found a community of gay expatriates that were able to escape the repressive attitudes toward homosexuality in Britain. Where she lived with Julie for the rest of her life. During her off-duty time from her service in World War II, she wrote her next three novels.Īfter the war had ended, she went to South Africa and settled at the Cape. During this time as a nurse, she met Julie Mullard, a fellow nurse with whom she established a lifelong romantic relationship. She went to Oxford first with the idea that she would become a teacher, but later found she wanted to be a writer instead, and after she got her degree she should broaden her knowledge on human life.Īfter this, she trained as a nurse for three years, and wrote “Promise of Love”, her first published novel. Mary Renault (born Eileen Mary Challans) was born in the year 1905 in London, where her dad was a doctor.
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