Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life - Hardcover

Blondel, Nathalie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929701550 ISBN 13: 9780929701554

Publisher: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

A distinctive and original voice within the Modernist movement, the English novelist Mary Butts was a prodigy of style, learning and energy, whose work compared with Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot, and was championed by Pound, Robert McAlmon, Ford Madox Ford, and others.

About this title

About the Author:

Nathalie Blondel was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1960 and grew up in Colchester, Essex. She was educated at Colchester Girl's High School and Liverpool University, where she completed a doctorate in 1989 on the fiction of Mary Butts and the American writer Jane Bowles. Subsequently she has edited three of Jane Bowles's unpublished stories in collaboration with Paul Bowles, and has worked as a writer and translator: her subjects have included Jean Cocteau, Arthur Symons, Frances Bellerby, Patrick Hamilton, and Jocelyn Brooks, as well as Mary Butts. Nathalie Blondel currently is Research Fellow in Modern Literature and Lecturer at Oxford Brookes.

About this edition

• Publisher: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0929701550
• ISBN 13: 9780929701554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600