A.S. Byatt was born in 1936 in Sheffield. Before returning to full-time writing in 1983, A.S. Byatt was a Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at University College, London. In 1990 A.S. Byatt’s book, Possession, won the Booker Prize.
The story “Baglady” is about a woman named Daphne Gulver-Robinson. She is married, and her husband’s name is Rollo Gulver-Robinson.
Rollo is headed off for a conference, and he is bringing his wife. While he is there, his wife and the directors’ wives, go for a jaunt in the Good Fortune Shopping Mall. Daphne is not excited for this jaunt or this entire trip at all. But Mr. Scroop would get bees in his bonnet if Rollo did not bring his wife. The wives arrive to the shopping mall and they forget Daphne, so she is walking around by herself. Daphne is not sure, if she likes shopping but buys some stuff anyway. After a while she has run out of time. Daphne has to find her way back to the entrance. But will she find the way? And why is all of her stuff suddenly missing?
The main character is Daphne Gulver-Robinson. She is the wife of Rollo Gulver-Robinson. Daphne is not like the other directors’ wives. She does not wear elegant silky suits. “Her style is seated tweed, and stout shoes, and bird’s-nest hair”. She likes to stay at home and look out for the donkeys, the geese, the fantails and the pigs. She does not like the shopping like the other wives, who are excited about the whole thing.
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