Horner Barbara Comyns

A savage innocence
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7375-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 372 Seiten

This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horner, Avril

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 From Bell Court to Amsterdam
2 Portrait of the artist as a young woman
3 Lovers and others
4 Desperate measures
5 The Pemberton persecution
6 Mr Fox
7 Becoming a writer
8 Becoming Comyns
9 Spies, lies and fictions
10 Ibiza
11 Settling in Barcelona
12 The San Roque venture
13 The return to England
14 Hauntings
15 Legacies
Afterword
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Horner Avril:
Avril Horner is Professor of English at Kingston University, LondonAvril Horner is an Emeritus Professor of English at Kingston University. She is the author or editor of numerous books, most recently Women and the Gothic with Sue Zlosnik (2016) and Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934–95 with Anne Rowe (2015).