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Fresca - A Life in the Making: A Biographers Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath
Helen Southworth
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Description for Fresca - A Life in the Making: A Biographers Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath
Hardcover. Num Pages: 340 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; BGFA; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This is a detective story, cultural history and love story. It tells a tale of unconventionality, multifarious creativity, and a quest for new ways of living and loving amidst the complexities of Interwar Britain. For Francesca Allinson life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography too gets turned upside down in the making -- how the story of a single individual can throw the literary and social perspective of the period into relief. Helen Southworths initial goal was to discover how ... Read more
This is a detective story, cultural history and love story. It tells a tale of unconventionality, multifarious creativity, and a quest for new ways of living and loving amidst the complexities of Interwar Britain. For Francesca Allinson life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography too gets turned upside down in the making -- how the story of a single individual can throw the literary and social perspective of the period into relief. Helen Southworths initial goal was to discover how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198213
SKU
V9781845198213
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Helen Southworth
Helen Southworth is Associate Professor of literature at the University of Oregon. She has written and edited numerous books and articles, including The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette (2004), Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism (2010), and with Battershill et al., Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist ... Read more
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