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The first literary biography of the 20th century novelist.
Sommario
- Introduction: 'Never a Day Without a Line'
- 'Laburnum Grove'
- 'The Most Terrifying City in the World'
- 'Bucharest'
- 'Escaping the Barbarians'
- 'The Dark Side of the World'
- 'Going Home'
- 'Writing in Austerity'
- 'The "Booksey Boys" and the Woman Writer'
- 'Watching History'
- 'A Strange Decade'
- 'A Deteriorating World'
- 'The Battle Won'
- 'The Stray Survivor'
Info autore
Deirdre David is Professor Emerita of English at Temple University. Throughout her long career she has taught courses in Victorian literature, the history of the British novel, and women's writing. She has published books dealing with social problems in the Victorian novel (Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels, 1981), the conflicted position of the woman intellectual in Victorian culture (Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy 1987), and the importance of British women in imperialism (Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing 1995). She also edited The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (2001), and co-edited (with Eileen Gillooly) Contemporary Dickens (2009). She published her first biography in 2007 (Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life) and continues to teach as a member of the Society of Senior Scholars at Columbia University.
Riassunto
The first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning, this volume is a timely, expert, and well-researched biography that offers a vivid portrait of wartime survival and of London literary life from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Testo aggiuntivo
Deirdre David, who has written a rewarding book about Manning's life, treats her as a giant. Having read the two trilogies, and then Deirdre David's book as a follow-up, I feel bound to say that Ms. David is right -- feel bound, that is, because Manning is still not getting the attention she deserves.
