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Sybil Le Brocquy - Cadenus: Reassessment of the Relationships Between Swift, Stella and Vanessa: AND Swift's Most Valuable Friend - 9781843510178 - KEX0220095
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Cadenus: Reassessment of the Relationships Between Swift, Stella and Vanessa: AND Swift's Most Valuable Friend

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Description for Cadenus: Reassessment of the Relationships Between Swift, Stella and Vanessa: AND Swift's Most Valuable Friend Hardcover. "Cadenus" is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), "Swift's Most Valuable Friend" with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson). Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle, and the impact it had on his writing and career. Illustrator(s): Brocquy, Louis Le. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; BGH; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Clean copy

These books are being reissued as they appeared in the first Dolmen Press editions in one composite volume, with an invaluable, contextual introduction by eighteenth-century Swift scholar Andrew Carpenter. He assesses the reaction of Swift’s serious biographers and commentators to the original publications: ‘… two remarkable books, driven by sympathetic and intuitive enquiry, which made an important contribution to Swift studies when they appeared in the 1960s and which still remain significant for all those interested in Swift’s life and works’. Cadenus is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), Swift’s Most Valuable Friend with ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Number of pages
320
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510178
SKU
KEX0220095
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Sybil Le Brocquy
SYBIL LE BROCQUY (1892-1973), Irish playwright, conservationist and mother of the painter Louis le Brocquy, was immersed in the arts and an acknowledged expert on the life and work of Jonathan Swift. During her lifetime she wrote four books on Swift, published by Liam Miller's Dolmen Press.

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