Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Julia Strachey, Frances Partridge
Language: English
Published by Persephone Books Ltd 2009-11-06, 2009
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- Title
- Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
- Author
- Julia Strachey, Frances Partridge
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd 2009-11-06
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1903155274
- ISBN 13
- 9781903155271
Frances Partridge, a lifelong friend of Julia Strachey's, who wrote a memoir about her called Julia, has now written a Preface for the Persephone Books edition of Cheerful Weather for the Wedding. In it she points out that Julia wrote very little but what she wrote was of outstanding quality.
Julia Strachey was renowned for her sharp wit and unusually beautiful prose style. 'After Cheerful Weather's appearance, the literary editor of The New Yorker wrote to Julia saying he would publish anything she cared to send him,' said Frances Partridge in Julia. 'It was evern said that her book was for a while obligatory reading for his staff.' Julia only wrote two novels but Cheerful Weather is her most lasting work. Virginia Woolf described it as 'a very cute, clever, indeed rather remarkable acidulated story...I think it astonishingly good - complete and sharp and individual.' The Observer, calling it ' the slightest but the more perfect' of her two novels, wrote: 'The observer is so sharp-eyed and so delicate-tongued that her book reveals, on one level, the rich absurdity of the participants, on a deeper level the helpless despair which they carry about with them.' Yet the overall effect of the book is very funny in a Forsterian manner, Dolly Thatcham in Cheerful Weather being out of the same stable as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View and both the mothers, Mrs Thatcham and Mrs Honeychurch, sharing many appalling similarities.
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