Henry James
His Women and His Art
$81.16
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2012
Summary
In 1894 Henry James tried to drown a boatload of dresses belonging to the writer Constance Fenimore Woolson in the Venetian lagoon. She had fallen to her death from her Venice window three months before. James’s elusive friendship with Fenimore echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny Temple who had died twenty years earlier at the age of twenty-four. From their graves they haunted his imagination, Minny inspiring the heroines of A PORTRAIT OF A LADY and THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, while Feni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844088928 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844088928 |
| Author: | Lyndall Gordon |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 455g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 200mm x 37mm |
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‘Wonderfully full-blooded … A brilliant idea … superbly enjoyable material, much of it unfamiliar, all of it stimulating’
A rich book in which it is a pleasure to become absorbed - Independent on Sunday - Claire Tomalin
Wonderfully full-blooded … A brilliant idea … superbly enjoyable material, much of it unfamiliar, all of it stimulating - Guardian - Philip HorneCompelling … not an addition to the pile of “chronicle” biographies of Henry James … [The opening] is unforgettable, like a scene from a film … [This book] combines scholarly rigour with a nice line in nineteenth-century gothic - Daily Telegraph - Victoria GlendinningGordon’s approach to biography is imaginative and risky … The result is a magnificent, important book, which points the way forward for the whole biographical genre - Literary Review - Kathryn HughesAbout The Author
Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon is the prizewinning biographer of people such as Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Mary Wollstonecraft. Born and raised in South Africa, Lyndall is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
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