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She is the author of Elizabeth Bowen and the.Sarah Waters
Welsh novelist (born 1966)
This article is about the novelist. For the applied mathematician, see Sarah L. Waters.
Sarah Ann WatersOBE (born 21 July 1966[1]) is a Welsh novelist.
She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
Life and education
Early life
Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1966.
Sarah Waters has been an author who is studied extensively by many different scholars, both in the field of gender studies as well as in literary studies.
She later moved to Middlesbrough, England, when she was eight years old. She grew up in a family that included her father Ron, mother Mary, and a "much older" sister.[2] Her mother was a housewife and her father an engineer who worked on oil refineries.[3] She describes her family as "pretty idyllic, very safe and nurturing".
Her father, "a fantastically creative person", encouraged her to build and invent.[4]
Waters said, "When I picture myself as a child, I see myself constructing something, out of plasti