So that she got more or less thrown out of the family and the religious community.Īfter several partly rather odd jobs she eventually began to study at Oxford University where she graduated in 1981 with an M.A. When her mother found the books she had kept under her mattress she burned them all.Īt the age of fifteen she left home after she had told her mother about her first lesbian relationship. The only books she grew up with were three bibles and three other books. People came to Accrington only to hear her preach. They brought her up for evangelical service, to become a missionary and, she is said to have written sermons already at the age of eight years. She was born in Lancashire in 1959 and raised in a working-class fundamentalist Christian home being adpoted as a child by a Pentecostal Evangelical family. For more stories about it you could read Oranges are not the only fruit, or just watch the film even though, as she put it in Art Objects - Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (1995): “Art must resist autobiography if it hopes to cross boundaries of class, culture.and sexuality.“ 1 1.
I will still say a few words about her life. According to Jeanette Winterson, there is not much use in talking about biographies or even sexuality.
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