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Pamela Hansford Johnson : a writing life /
This crisply written biography traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood, through her tumultuous relationship with Dylan Thomas, to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C.P. Snow. Hers was a rich, courageous, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Pamela Hansford Johnson: A WRITING LIFE; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Note on Naming; Note on Editions; Prologue: Becoming a Novelist; Precious Dylan; The Writing Life; 1: The Rise; Henry Irvingś Chandelier; Riding Up Piccadilly; Disgracing Clapham; 2: Haunted by the Thirties; A Deepening Twilight; Remaining on the Left; A Eulogy for Bruges; 3: Writing With Every Nerve; Laleham; London; The Slow-Waking World of England; Troubled by the Flesh; A Settling Place; 4: Snow; Frozen; Balancing Guilt; Learning from Proust; 5: Breaking Free; Venice.
- Marrying CharlesA Long Way from Clapham Common; `Oh, My Paddington! My Bethnal Green!;́ Reasserting Dickens; `My Books Are My Children;́ 6: A Professional Novelist; Seizing the Pen; A Country of Her Own; One Hand Out of the Fire; The Road to `Skipton;́ 7: Abroad; Travelling Writers; Mrs Iago; A Dotty Novel; 8: Besieged; Heaving Mightily at the Winch; A Shrewd and Knavish Sprite; Being Agnes Wickfield; Murder-Haunted Crescents; 9: Elegies; Social Castration; Dispersed Are We; Not a Lady Novelist; No Words for the Horror; 10: The Halting Shadow; Twelfth Night; `Another Deft Lady Snow Job́
- The SeasideLiving Now; 11: The Orange Chair; The Great Anodyne; Husbands; Guilt; Notes; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER 1: THE RISE; CHAPTER 2: HAUNTED BY THE THIRTIES; CHAPTER 3: WRITING WITH EVERY NERVE; CHAPTER 4: SNOW; CHAPTER 5: BREAKING FREE; CHAPTER 6: A PROFESSIONAL NOVELIST; CHAPTER 7: ABROAD; CHAPTER 8: BESIEGED; CHAPTER 9: ELEGIES; CHAPTER 10: THE HALTING SHADOW; CHAPTER 11: THE ORANGE CHAIR; Bibliography; WORKS BY PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON; Novels; Plays; Uncollected Short Stories; Non-Fiction, Miscellaneous; Recordings; Other Works; Acknowledgements; Index.