Editing Anita Brookner (section)

==Life and education==
Brookner (Bruckner) was born in [[Herne Hill]], a suburb of London.<ref>Free BMD: Births Jul-Sep 1928   
Bruckner, Anita	 Schishka (mother)	Camberwell 1d 991</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/brookner.html |title=Anita Brookner, 1928– Notebooks, ca. 1986–1994 |department=Harry Ransom Center |publisher=The University of Texas at Austin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310024241/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/brookner.html |archive-date=10 March 2009}}</ref> She was the only child of Newson Bruckner, a [[History of the Jews in Poland|Jewish]] immigrant from [[Piotrków Trybunalski]] in Poland, and Maude Schiska, a singer whose grandfather had emigrated from Warsaw, Poland, and founded a tobacco factory at which her husband worked after arriving in Britain aged 18. Her mother gave up her singing career when she married and, according to her daughter, was unhappy for the rest of her life.<ref name="Timesobit">{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/anita-brookner-286mtsl39 |title=Anita Brookner |work=The Times |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="McNayGdn">{{Cite news |last=McNay|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/15/anita-brookner-obituary |first=Michael |title=Anita Brookner obituary|work=The Guardian |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> Maude changed the family's surname to Brookner because of anti-German sentiment in Britain following [[World War I]].<ref name="Indy20160315">{{Cite news |last=Gutteridge |first=Peter |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doctor-anita-brookner-art-historian-who-began-writing-novels-at-the-age-of-53-and-won-the-booker-a6933111.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doctor-anita-brookner-art-historian-who-began-writing-novels-at-the-age-of-53-and-won-the-booker-a6933111.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Doctor Anita Brookner: Art historian who began writing novels at the age of 53 and won the Booker Prize for ''Hotel du Lac'' |work=The Independent |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=29 March 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood, although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family, and her parents, secular Jews, opened their house to Jewish refugees fleeing the Germans during the 1930s and [[World War II]]. "I have said that I am one of the loneliest women in London" she said in her ''[[Paris Review]]'' interview.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2630/anita-brookner-the-art-of-fiction-no-98-anita-brookner |title=Anita Brookner, The Art of Fiction No. 98 |magazine=Paris Review |access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Alam |first=Rumaan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/books/in-praise-of-anita-brookner.html |title=In Praise of Anita Brookner |work=The New York Times |date=1 March 2018 |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref>

She was educated at the [[James Allen's Girls' School]],<ref name="Tgraphobit">{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12194509/Anita-Brookner-novelist-obituary.html |title=Anita Brookner, novelist - obituary |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> a fee-paying school. In 1949 she received a BA in history from [[King's College London]], and in 1953 a doctorate in art history from the [[Courtauld Institute of Art]], [[University of London]].<ref name="NYT20160315">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/arts/international/anita-brookner-hotel-du-lac-obituary.html |title=Anita Brookner, Whose Bleak Fiction Won the Booker Prize, Dies at 87 |last=Cowell|first=Alan |date=15 March 2016|work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> Under the supervision of [[Anthony Blunt]], then director of the Courtauld, what was originally a Masters thesis on the French genre painter [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]] was upgraded to a doctorate.<ref name="McNayGdn"/> She received a French government scholarship in 1950 to the  [[École du Louvre]] and spent most of the decade living in Paris.<ref name="Tgraphobit"/>