The first biography of Mew since Penelope Fitzgerald’s of 1984. The poet, once feted, has become as outcast as she felt herself to be; let us hope that Julia Copus’ recent new edition of her work and this new biography will bring her into the light once again. She is said, engagingly, to have rolled her own cigarettes using up scraps of draft poems.
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978057131353215/04/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Ronald Knox, in his sermon at GKC's funeral, said "All of this generation has grown up under Chesterton's influence so completely that we do not even know when we are thinking Chesterton", y... read more
The Sins of G. K. Chesterton
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Joan Leigh Fermor's biographer turns to Eddy Sackville-West, Desmon Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys and the unusual salon they created at Long Crichel in Dorset, where Nancy Mitford, Benjam... read more
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A welcome addition to DPJ's superb first volume of family memoir, 'Fault Lines' , which was a rare window on C20th Europe.
Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime
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