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Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Works and Times
Wendy Pollard
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Description for Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Works and Times
Hardcover. This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full co-operation of her three children, who allowed Wendy Pollard access to previously unexamined diaries, letters and much other material, illuminating their mother's eventful and often entertaining life. Pamela Hansford Johnson's achievements were all the more Num Pages: 512 pages, photos, bibliography and index. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1002.
This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full co-operation of her three children, who allowed Wendy Pollard access to previously unexamined diaries, letters and much other material, illuminating their mother's eventful and often entertaining life. Pamela Hansford Johnson's achievements were all the more remarkable because of her lack of formal education after the age of 16. With no literary contacts to ease her path, she nevertheless quickly established herself first as a poet, then as a prolific short story writer, and, after the publication of her first novel, she was able to support herself ... Read more
This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full co-operation of her three children, who allowed Wendy Pollard access to previously unexamined diaries, letters and much other material, illuminating their mother's eventful and often entertaining life. Pamela Hansford Johnson's achievements were all the more remarkable because of her lack of formal education after the age of 16. With no literary contacts to ease her path, she nevertheless quickly established herself first as a poet, then as a prolific short story writer, and, after the publication of her first novel, she was able to support herself ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Shepheard-Walwyn
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856832987
SKU
V9780856832987
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About Wendy Pollard
After a number of administrative jobs, Wendy Pollard worked for five years as editorial assistant on the Newsdesk of Independent Television News. While her family was growing up, she studied with the Open University, gaining a first-class honours degree. She was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the English Faculty of the University of Cambridge, for a dissertation on the ... Read more
Reviews for Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Works and Times
"PAMELA Hansford Johnson has found the perfect biographer and critic in Wendy Pollard, in a book bound to appeal to readers with an interest in the literary world of twentieth-century Britain, and in women's literary lives in particular. Fully and extensively researched, this intelligent study judiciously sets Hansford Johnson's life and considerable achievements in the context of her times. [It] ... Read more