Marina Warner Marina Warner was born in London in 1946, of an Italian mother and an English father who was a bookseller. After primary schools in Cairo and Brussels, she was educated in England at St Mary’s Convent, Ascot, and then read French and Italian as an undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, of which she is now an Honorary Fellow. Since 2004 she has been a professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. She teaches an undergraduate course, Transformation of Fairytale. She also teaches MA courses in Creative Writing; The Tale, and another on psycho-geographical writing, Memory Maps.
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