Several Strangers: Writing from Three Decades - Hardcover

Tomalin, Claire

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9780670885671: Several Strangers: Writing from Three Decades

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ISBN 10: 0670885673 ISBN 13: 9780670885671

Publisher: Viking, 1999

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SEVERAL STRANGERS collects together the best of Claire Tomalin's literary pieces and reviews over a period of thirty years. The subjects will be familiar to lovers of her books: Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Mary Wollstonecraft, Dickens and hismistress Ellen Ternan, and so on. And in a fascinating long introduction she writes of her own involvement in literary journalism, including intriguing portraits of among others Martin Amis, Andrew Neill and Julian Barnes.

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Synopsis:

Claire Tomalin is best known for a series of acclaimed biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mrs Jordan, Katherine Mansfield, Dickens's mistress Nelly Ternan and, most recently, Jane Austen. But she has also worked as a publisher, critic and journalist, and she reviews and broadcasts collected here are from three decades as a literary journalist. Their subjects range from women's history to modern fiction, letters and biographies of the great - Dickens, Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath - to more obscure but no less intriguing figures such as Dame Ethel Smyth ("Ancient Mariner" and "Belle Dame Sans Merci" rolled into one) and Edith Nesbit, who managed to keep three households going and to write some of the richest and most long-lasting children's books. In three introductory essays to the main sections of the book, Claire Tomalin describes her own career, which began in London during the fifties and included a period as literary editor of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times, at a time when both of these papers were particularly vibrant and creative.

About the Author:

The former literary editor of both the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, Claire Tomalin has written a series of highly praised and very successful biographies, most recently her bestselling life of JANE AUSTEN. She lives in Camden Town with her husband Michael Frayn.

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