from Queen Mary, University of London and an MA from the University of Lancaster. Sarah Waters later became an accredited scholar as she received a BA from the University of Kent, a Ph.D. Waters attended the Milford Haven Grammar School after which she enrolled in the university where she earned various degrees in English Literature. She spent most of her childhood writing stories and poems that she often described as ‘dreadful gothic pastiches’ and constructing a variety of things from plasticine, Meccano or papier-mâché.Īlthough Sarah waters had an early passion for writing, she did not consider it a career choice in her youthful years. Waters loves to describe her family as “a very safe, pretty idyllic and nurturing family.” Sarah attributes her creativity to her father who constantly encouraged her to build and invent whenever possible. Her mother was a respectable housewife while her father was a qualified engineer who worked on oil refineries. Sarah, who is best known for featuring unique lesbian protagonists, including Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet as well as her novel set in Victorian society is also a scholar with a Ph.D. Ron, who was her father, Mary her mother and a sister. The female author grew in a family comprising of Mr. Sarah Waters is a female Welsh novelist who was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire on 21st July 1966.

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