Daisy Goodwin is a bestselling author and screenwriter. She created the PBS series Victoria. Her most recent novel, Diva, is about the singer Maria Callas. Last year she revealed a conservative candidate for the London mayoral race had groped her under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher at No. 10 Downing Street. He withdrew from the race.
Why is it that, no matter how dynamic famous women are, biopics about them center on their deterioration at the end of their lives? A Maria Callas expert would like to have a word.
There is a cognitive dissonance about Munro, so long admired for her compassionate feminism, choosing to compound the terrible sexual abuse that had been done to her own daughter.
