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Young Bloomsbury : the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression / by Strachey, Nino,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'Young Bloomsbury' is focused on the incredibly colourful cast of characters in the second generation of Bloomsbury. They were more transgressive than the previous generation and included Eddy Sackville-West, the handsome bisexual sculptor Stephen Tomlin, and the butch lesbian psychologist Alix Strachey. Nino Strachey is related to Lytton Strachey from the first generation. She is the last member of the Strachey family to grow up at Sutton Court in Somerset, home of the Strachey's for over 300 years. From the author of 'Rooms of Their Own'.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Artists; Artists; Authors, English; Authors, English; Bloomsbury group.;
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Notes on a writers' life : a memoir / by Richards, David Adams,author.;
Notes on a Writer's Life is the author's account of his more than fifty years as a writer. It chronicles his early childhood, his high school years of turmoil and rebellion, and his uneasy relationship with both publishers and academics. Throughout, Richards records his continuous investigation into human conflict, into the chasm between the seeking of power and the knowledge of love. The book also deliberates on his examination into the nature of violence, both overt and coercive, that he has considered in thirty-five books. Richards describes his travels to various parts of the world, his love of the sea, his love of Spain, and his fight against alcoholism. Crucially and poignantly, he recounts how for years his wife Peggy has been his greatest ally and supporter. Notes on a Writer's Life also includes his relationships with other writers--his respect for Alden Nowlan, Alistair MacLeod, P.K. Page, Joel Hines, and Patrick Lane, and his friendship with Ray Fraser among others. Here, too, are his views on writers like Orwell, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Readers will learn of his determination to write against the odds, from the early books like The Coming of Winter, Blood Ties and Lives of Short Duration, to his later works, such as Mercy Among the Children, Crimes Against My Brother, and Darkness. Richards believes that suffering is inherent and so is joy. He reflects on the absolute necessity of reaching toward a spiritual life (if not a religious one) as well as his knowledge of war and revolutions, and how both swallow humanity's greater need for justice and liberty.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Richards, David Adams.; Authorship.; Authors, Canadian (English);
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Agatha Christie : a very elusive woman / by Worsley, Lucy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.' Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why--despite all the evidence to the contrary--did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was--truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
Subjects: Biographies.; Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.; Authors, English; Detective and mystery stories; Women authors, English; Women novelists, English;
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My history : a memoir of growing up / by Fraser, Antonia,1932-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Fraser, Antonia, 1932-; Authors, English;
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Born naked / by Mowat, Farley,1921-;
Subjects: Mowat, Farley, 1921- ; Authors, Canadian (English);
© c1993., Key Porter Books,
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Stephen Leacock / by MacMillan, Margaret,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169).LSC
Subjects: Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944.; Authors, Canadian (English); Humorists, Canadian (English);
© 2009., Penguin Group,
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Mordecai Richler / by Vassanji, M. G..;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Richler, Mordecai 1931-2001.; Novelists, Canadian (English); Authors, Canadian (English); Jewish authors;
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Mansfield Park / by Austen, Jane,1775-1817;
Subjects: Classics; Literary; English fiction; Women; English fiction;
© 2006, c1814., Knopf Publishing,
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Memoirs of Montparnasse / by Glassco, John,1909-1981.; Gnarowski, Michael,1934-;
Includes bibliographical references: p. 256-259.
Subjects: Glassco, John, 1909-1981; Authors, Canadian (English);
© 1995., Oxford University Press,
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The case of the married woman : Caroline Norton and her fight for women's justice / by Fraser, Antonia,1932-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Poet, pamphleteer and artist's muse, Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century society with her vivacity and intelligence. After her marriage in 1828 to the MP George Norton, she continued to attract friends and admirers to her salon in Westminster, which included the young Disraeli. Most prominent among her admirers was the widowed Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Racked with jealousy, George Norton took the Prime Minister to court, suing him for damages on account of his 'Criminal Conversation' (adultery) with Caroline. A dramatic trial followed. Despite the unexpected and sensational result - acquittal - Norton legally denied Caroline access to her three children under seven. He also claimed her income as an author for himself, since the copyrights of a married woman belonged to her husband. Yet Caroline refused to despair. Beset by the personal cruelties perpetrated by her husband and a society whose rules were set against her, she chose to fight, not surrender. She channelled her energies in an area of much-needed reform: the rights of a married woman and specifically those of a mother. Over the next few years she campaigned tirelessly, achieving her first landmark victory with the Infant Custody Act of 1839. Provisions which are now taken for granted, such as the right of a mother to have access to her own children, owe much to Caroline, who was determined to secure justice for women at all levels of society from the privileged to the dispossessed. Award-winning historian Antonia Fraser brilliantly portrays a woman, at once courageous and compassionate, who refused to be curbed by the personal and political constraints of her time"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877.; Authors, English; Women authors, English; Women's rights; Women;
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