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Antonia WhiteMy novels and short stories are mainly about ordinary people who become involved in rather extraordinary situations. I do not mean in sensational adventures but in rather odd and difficult personal relationships more often than not due to their family background and their incomplete understanding of their own natures. Antonia White Antonia White was born in London March 1, 1899 in London under the arrive at Eirine Bottling to parents Cecil and Christine Bottling. (She later took her mothers maiden name, White and Tony was a name she was known by amongst her friends.) Her father was a professor of Greek and Latin at St. Pauls School. She was baptized a protestant and so converted Catholic at age 7 because her father converted to Catholicism. She struggled with religion and did not feel that she play off in with the other catholic children. She did not find faith in the church as a child although she was educated at a catholic school, The Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton. Although she is remember as a modernist author, she developed a terrible fear of writing after a misunderstanding when she was 15. She had been working on what was release to her first novel. It was to be a present for her father. She wanted to surprise him with a book about wicked people whose lives are changed as they discover religion. She move to give a detailed description of the evil characters, but, because of her lack of experience, she was unable to describe their wickedness except to say that they Indulged in nameless vices. This dark grade was found unfinished by officials at her catholic school and she was then expelled from the school without world given the opportunity to explain her book. She describes this incident as being her most vivid and tragic memory. My superb gift to my father was absolutely my undoing she remarked in an interview. She did not begin writing novels again until 20 age later, when her father died. After she left school, she attended her fathers school St. Pauls for the next few years. She attempted to be an actress but was unsuccessful. She then wrote in magazines and worked in advertising where she earned 250 pounds a year advertising Mercolized wax. She spent nine years working as a copy writer in London and she also worked for the BBC as a translator.