The very term Dame of the British Empire — the female equivalent of a knighthood in the British gentry — inevitably summons up a majestic figure. But there was nothing genteel about the British novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge DBE (1932-2010).
The very term Dame of the British Empire — the female equivalent of a knighthood in the British gentry — inevitably summons up a majestic figure. But there was nothing genteel about the British novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge DBE (1932-2010).