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Fitzgerald Penelope
Charlotte Mew And Her Friends
Charlotte Mew And Her Friends
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Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set. Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the twentieth century beloved of Siegfried Sassoon and Walter de la Mare (for whom she was a very rare being ) unafraid of Virginia Woolf and considered by Hardy to be far and away the best living woman poet . Part of a new wave of fashionable female dandies who lived passionate precarious existences in Bloomsbury she was an enchanting and spirited personality. But behind the brave face was a life riddled with grief: left to care for her disturbed mother two siblings with undiagnosed Schizophrenia and Charlotte herself burdened by depression and closeted lesbianism; she killed herself by drinking household disinfectant. In this unexpectedly gripping portrait of a life of passion unfulfilled Penelope Fitzgerald brings all her novelist's skills into play in telling a story that is at once tragic beautiful and deeply human.
Title: Charlotte Mew And Her Friends
Author(s): Fitzgerald Penelope
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Barcode: 9780007142743
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 11/4/2002
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set. Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the twentieth century beloved of Siegfried Sassoon and Walter de la Mare (for whom she was a very rare being ) unafraid of Virginia Woolf and considered by Hardy to be far and away the best living woman poet . Part of a new wave of fashionable female dandies who lived passionate precarious existences in Bloomsbury she was an enchanting and spirited personality. But behind the brave face was a life riddled with grief: left to care for her disturbed mother two siblings with undiagnosed Schizophrenia and Charlotte herself burdened by depression and closeted lesbianism; she killed herself by drinking household disinfectant. In this unexpectedly gripping portrait of a life of passion unfulfilled Penelope Fitzgerald brings all her novelist's skills into play in telling a story that is at once tragic beautiful and deeply human.
Title: Charlotte Mew And Her Friends
Author(s): Fitzgerald Penelope
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Barcode: 9780007142743
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 11/4/2002
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets