Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (Vermilion Books) - Softcover

Tomalin, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312029373 ISBN 13: 9780312029371

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1989

Synopsis

An account of the life of the gifted, beautiful, but strangely secretive writer provides a glimpse of the competitive London literary scene between 1908 and 1923 and of such literary figures as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

About this title

About the Author:

Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. They include Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0312029373
• ISBN 13: 9780312029371
• Binding: Paperback