Over her writing career, James also wrote many essays and short stories for periodicals and anthologies, which have yet to be collected. Talking About Detective Fiction was published in 2009. Her later novels were often set in a community closed in some way, such as a publishing house, barristers' chambers, a theological college, an island or a private clinic. Her 2001 work, Death in Holy Orders, displays her familiarity with the inner workings of church hierarchy. She was an Anglican and a lay patron of the Prayer Book Society. She sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative. On 7 February 1991, James was created a life peer as Baroness James of Holland Park, of Southwold in the County of Suffolk.
She worked in government service until her retirement in 1979. But now I felt the strong need to look for a change of direction." She applied for the grade of Principal in the Home Civil Service and held positions as a civil servant within several sections of the Home Office, including the criminal section. It was not a propitious time to look for promotion or for a new job, which would only impose additional strain. Prior to his death, James had not felt able to change her job: "He would periodically discharge himself from hospital, sometimes at very short notice, and I never knew quite what I would have to face when I returned home from the office. Two years after the publication of Cover Her Face, James's husband died on 5 August 1964. Many of James's mystery novels take place against the backdrop of UK bureaucracies, such as the criminal justice system and the National Health Service, in which she worked for decades starting in the 1940s. Dalgliesh's last name comes from a teacher of English at Cambridge High School and his first name is that of Miss Dalgliesh's father. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator and poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, was published in 1962. She began writing in the mid-1950s, using her maiden name ("My genes are James genes"). With her daughters being mostly cared for by Connor's parents, James studied hospital administration, and from 1949 to 1968 worked for a hospital board in London. White returned from the Second World War mentally ill and was institutionalised. She married Ernest Connor Bantry White (called "Connor"), an army doctor, on 8 August 1941. She worked in a tax office in Ely for three years and later found a job as an assistant stage manager for the Festival Theatre in Cambridge. She had to leave school at the age of sixteen to work to take care of her younger siblings, sister Monica, and brother Edward, because her family did not have much money and her father did not believe in higher education for girls.
Her mother was committed to a mental hospital when James was in her mid-teens. She was educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls. James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney Victor James, a tax inspector, and his wife, Dorothy Mary James. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh.
James, was an English novelist and life peer. Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. ĥ8 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 where PD James lived from 1984-2012 From the BBC programme Front Row, 3 June 2013.
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