Helen T. Verongos

Midtown, Montclair

Senior Staff Editor and Mentor, Reviewer and Writer at The New York Times

Crossword addict, trivia devotee, journalist, unionist, parent.* Love books, Asia, yoga, swimming, free tuition*, endless summer. She/her.

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Jane Gardam, witty novelist of a waning British Empire, dies at 96

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Helen T. Verongos

Jane Gardam, a novelist whose works captured with wit and concision the last rays of the sun setting on the British Empire and the lifestyles that were extinguished with it, died Monday in Chipping Norton, England. She was 96. The death, at a care facility, was confirmed by her son Tom. Distinct from one another as planets, Jane Gardam’s many novels are as thick with madness and self-sacrifice as William Shakespeare’s and as fraught with long-standing misapprehensions as Molière’s.
'Old Filth' Author Was 96

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Helen T. Verongos

"The Queen of the Tambourine," "Old Filth" and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era. Jane Gardam, a novelist whose works captured with wit and concision the last rays of the sun setting on the British Empire and the lifestyles that were extinguished with it, died on Monday in Chipping Norton, England. She was 96. The death, at a care facility, was confirmed by her son Tom Gardam.