“A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one” …Diane Johnson’s sensitive, witty and and intelligent biography of Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821-1861), the well-educated and unconventional daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith. “Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table-a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage…””
True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives
£14.99
978168137445123/06/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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A writer leaves NY for a residency in Berlin, where his values struggle against the shadows of the past.
Red Pill
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A compelling portrait of the writer and her engagement with her own world. Constructed as a series of essays on art, memory, painting, rank, property, appearance, etc., this is immensely rea... read more
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Van Gogh was famously driven by books - his letters to Theo allude to 200+ authors. Here is an original study of their relation to his art.
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The first biography of this much loved author, bonne vivante, European, and John Sandoe customer, mentored by Aldous Huxley. Hastings' earlier biographical subjects include Somerset Maugham,... read more
Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life
Hardback £25.00