The Swan In The Evening

Zusatztext Full of her sensibility! her funniness! her own peculiar acumen Informationen zum Autor Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral, in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer , to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets , The Ballad and the Source , and the short memoir The Swan in the Evening . Lehmann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century. Klappentext A personal memoir of a great writer and a rare and important spiritual autobiography A personal memoir of a great writer and a rare and important spiritual autobiography Zusammenfassung A personal memoir of a great writer and a rare and important spiritual autobiography

Product details

• Authors: Rosamond Lehmann
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.1982
• EAN: 9780860682998
• ISBN: 978-0-86068-299-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 131 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; FICTION / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Prose: non-fiction, Autobiography: general, Biography and non-fiction prose